The Conscience of Care

A groundbreaking and deeply informed exploration of the stark asymmetries in the legal treatment of conscientious refusal and provision in medicine. Mandatory reading for anyone concerned about medical ethics and the evolving roles of government in healthcare. – Anita L. Allen, University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolDov Fox’s pioneering work shines a much-needed light on the importance of protecting conscientious providers of prohibited care – an issue that could not be more timely. – I. Glenn Cohen, Harvard Law SchoolNever before have doctors faced such severe restrictions on whom they treat or how. Dov Fox presents a bold, urgent vision for resolving these pressing controversies of our time. Elegantly written and meticulously reasoned, this book makes real moral progress and bridges ideological divides: liberal and conservative, religious and secular. – Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford

Dov Fox is Herzog Research Professor of Law at the University of San Diego, where he founded and directs the Center for Health Law Policy & Bioethics. He is the author of Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology Are Remaking Reproduction and the Law, and his research has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Economist, CBS This Morning, and NBC’s Today Show. He is the creator and host of the investigative series Donor 9623, named Audible’s #1 podcast of 2020.