Withholding Medical Care For Religious Reasons

Withholding medical care for religious reasons

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Stimulated by publicity over lawsuits involving parents of children who had died from deprivation of medical care, this article is a survey of the beliefs of religious groups that refuse medical care on theological grounds and the legal principles designed to protect …

Withholding medical care for religious reasons - PubMed

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Withholding medical care for religious reasons. Withholding medical care for religious reasons J Relig Health. Winter 1984;23(4):268-82. doi: 10.1007/BF00991387. Author …

What the new religious exemptions law means for your …

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/what-the-new-religious-exemptions-law-means-for-your-health-care

Michigan Child's Death Puts Spotlight On …

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/31/643407967/michigan-childs-death-puts-spotlight-on-clash-between-medicine-and-religion

The case of a Michigan couple charged in the death of their 10-month-old daughter is bringing to light a …

Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment | ama-coe

https://code-medical-ethics.ama-assn.org/ethics-opinions/withholding-or-withdrawing-life-sustaining-treatment

Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment | ama-coe. Review with the patient the individual’s advance directive, if there is one. Otherwise, elicit the patient’s values, …

Religious Objections to Medical Care - Pediatrics

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/99/2/279/64697/Religious-Objections-to-Medical-Care

Parents sometimes deny their children the benefits of medical care because of religious beliefs. In some jurisdictions, exemptions to child abuse and neglect laws …

Blood Transfusions and Medical Care against Religious …

https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/908/blood-transfusions-and-medical-care-against-religious-beliefs

Jehovah's Witnesses oppose blood transfusions. In 1962 a New York state judge ruled that 69-year-old Jacob Dilgard could refuse a blood transfusion on religious grounds. Dilgard …

Some patients believe God wants them to …

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/some-patients-believe-god-wants-them-suffer-how-respond

Timothy M. Smith. For centuries, medicine approached relieving suffering as a component of attending to health. Physicians today, however, face a competing …

How religion can interfere with medical treatment | CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/07/health/religion-medical-treatment/index.html

Seventh-day Adventists’ beliefs about medical care made headlines in 2014 when a British couple, Nkosiyapha and Virginia Kunene, pleaded guilty to manslaughter …

Children's Medical Treatment and Parents …

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/parents-beliefs-about-medicine-child-abuse

Child advocates, though, have documented 185 child deaths and stillbirths in Idahoan families with religious beliefs against medical care since Idaho …