Baptist Pioneers in Liberty of Conscience

First Baptist Church

Conscience Wars: Complicity-Based Conscience Claims in Religion and Politics

Persons of faith are now seeking religious exemptions from laws concerning sex, reproduction, and marriage on the ground that the law makes the objector complicit in the assertedly sinful conduct of others. We term claims of this kind, which were at issue in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, complicity-based conscience claims. Complicity-based conscience claims differ in form and in social logic f...

'In good conscience': conscience-based exemptions and proper medical treatment.

Lack of clarity about the proper limits of conscientious refusal to participate in particular healthcare practices has given rise to fears that, in the absence of clear parameters, conscience-based exemptions may become increasingly widespread, leading to intolerable burdens on health professionals, patients, and institutions. Here, we identify three factors which clarify the proper scope of co...

Pioneers in medicine.

Probably the most striking feature of those involved with the EGP is their apparent willingness to make do with what they have to make it a success. The laboratory may be missing the sophisticated instrumentation that one would expect from a similar facility in a richer Western country, but it is definitely rich with the excitement of being a pioneer and with the keenness to improvise and solve...

Pioneers in Neurology

The nineteenth century witnessed some of the greatest neuroanatomists of all times. Amongst them is the largely forgotten Heinrich Sachs, a student of Carl Wernicke in Breslau. Sachs was a German neurologist, born in 1863 in Halberstadt a town in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt and the capital of the district of Harz. Despite his upbringing in a lower-income background, he was able to study m...