Submission to the Alberta College of Pharmacists
Re: Draft Code of Ethics
27 February, 2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abstract
I. Introduction
II. The context
III. Part V (Draft Code)
IV. Part VIII (Draft Code)
V. Purpose and effect of the Draft Code
VI. The issues
VII. Responding to the issues
VIII. The new 'rights' language
IX. Belief: religious and otherwise
X. Establishment consensus and the ethics of
the profession
XI. Social contract
XII. Social contract and socialized medicine
XIII. Fiduciary duty
XIV. "Negligence close to abandonment"
XV. Legality
XVI. Balance
XVII. Limits to expression
XVIII. The problem of complicity
XIX. The needs of the patient: anthropology
counts
XX. The human person
XXI. Summing up: mandatory referral or assistance
XXII. The need to explicitly address freedom of
conscience
XXIII. In search of consensus
XXIV. The way forward
XXV. Summing up: accommodating pharmacists and
patients
XXVI. Recapitulation
Appendix "A"
The Exercise of Freedom of Conscience in Pharmacy
Professional and Regulatory Responses Table -
February, 2009
Appendix "B"
The Exercise of Freedom of Conscience in Pharmacy
Professional and Regulatory Responses Summary -
February, 2009
Appendix "C"
The Exercise of Freedom of Conscience in Pharmacy
Professional and Regulatory Responses Details -
February, 2009
Appendix "D"
Conscientious Objection as a Crime
Against Humanity
Notes