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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

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