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Physicians at War The Dual-Loyalties Challenge /

There are a range of ethical issues that confront physicians in times of war, as well as some of the uses of physicians during wars. This book presents a theoretical apparatus which undergirds those debates, namely by casting physicians as being confronted with dual-loyalties during times of war. Wh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Allhoff, Fritz (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edición:1st ed. 2008.
Colección:International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 41
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Physicians and Dual-Loyalties
  • Physicians at War: The Dual-Loyalties Challenge
  • Dual-Loyalty and Human Rights in Health Professional Practice: Proposed Guidelines and Institutional Mechanisms
  • Guidelines to Prevent the Malevolent Use of Physicians in War
  • Dual Disloyalties: Law and Medical Ethics at Guantánamo Bay
  • Toward a Framework for Military Health Ethics
  • Physicians and Torture
  • Physician Involvement in Hostile Interrogations
  • Indecent Medicine Revisited: Considering Physician Involvement in Torture
  • Torture and the Regulation of the Health Care Professions
  • Physicians and Weapons Development
  • Is Medicine a Pacifist Vocation or Should Doctors Help Build Bombs?
  • The Case Against Doctor Involvement in Weapons Design and Development
  • Armed Conflict and Value Conflict: Case Studies in Biological Weapons
  • Ethics and the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Life Sciences
  • Physicians on the Battlefield
  • Triage Priorities and Military Physicians
  • Medical Neutrality and Political Activism: Physicians' Roles in Conflict Situations.