Is it ethical for health workers to strike? Issues from the 2001 QECH general hospital strike

Ethical issues of a doctors' strike.

Global medicine: Is it ethical or morally justifiable for doctors and other healthcare workers to go on strike?

BACKGROUND Doctor and healthcare worker (HCW) strikes are a global phenomenon with the potential to negatively impact on the quality of healthcare services and the doctor-patient relationship. Strikes are a legitimate deadlock breaking mechanism employed when labour negotiations have reached an impasse during collective bargaining. Striking doctors usually have a moral dilemma between adherence...

To strike or not to strike.

Strike while the iron is

Michael Wheeler opens his book with the following half-apology: “striking while the iron is lukewarm is sometimes the best strategy in philosophy” (Preface, p. x). He is referring to the fact that the main task of this book—to ferret out and critically assess the Cartesian legacy in contemporary cognitive science, replacing it (or at least altering it to better conform) with a philosophy of min...

The Right to Strike