Contemporary Challenges to Conscience

Introduction -- Contemporary challenges to conscience and their specificity / Aleksander Stępkowki -- Part I: General perspective -- Contemporary conscience-related controversies against philosophical background / Aleksander Stępkowki -- Conscience and Republican government / David F. Forte -- The place of conscience-based exemptions in the struggle against injustice / David Thunder -- Freedom of conscience - a basic human right? / Jakob Cornides -- Conscientious objection and the goals of medicine / Jakub Pawlikowski -- Part II: European perspective -- Freedom of conscience and cconscientious objection in the medical area / Gregor Puppinck and Claire de La Hougue -- Conscientious objection for medical practitioners in European human rights law / Roger Kiska and Robert Clarke -- Impact of the ECHR case law on the use of conscientious objection in Poland / Michal Skwarzyński -- Part III: National perspectives -- Threats to conscience protection in the United Sates during the years of the Obama administration / William L. Saunders -- Conscience clause of pharmacists and other pharmacy staff / Danuta Brańska -- Part IV: Courtroom perspective -- Medical doctor's right to act according to his/her conscience / Konstanty Radziwill -- Judgement K12/14 of 7th October 2015 / Constitutional tribunal of the Republic of Poland -- Conscience and science: Why a conscientious objection to forced prescription or dispensation of abortifacient drugs is reasonable / Dorinda C. Bordley and Nikolas T. Nikas -- Brief amicus curiae to U.S. Supreme Court case Stormans Inc v. John Wiesman / Dorinda C. Bordley and Nikolas T. Nikas -- Annex: National laws in EU member states on freedom of conscience and conscientious objection -- Bibliography -- Contributers