Pharmacist refusals: A threat to women's health

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5728, 2005, Pages 1557-1558

  Greenberger, Marcia D ^a   Vogelstein, Rachel ^a  

^a National Women's Law Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; POSTCOITUS CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY;

ATTITUDE; CONTRACEPTION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MARKETING; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; PHARMACIST; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; CONSCIENCE; ETHICS; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; LAW; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; PATIENT RIGHT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; RELIGION; STANDARD; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

CONSCIENCE; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE; CONTRACEPTIVES, POSTCOITAL; EUROPE; FEMALE; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; LEGISLATION, PHARMACY; PATIENT RIGHTS; PHARMACISTS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; REFUSAL TO TREAT; RELIGION; SOCIETIES, PHARMACEUTICAL; STATE GOVERNMENT; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 20644461518     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1114466     Document Type: Short Survey

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