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Medical Corps International Forum. Volume 4: pp 4–7. Messelken, Daniel and Hans U. Baer, Editors (2013), Proceedings of the 2nd ICMM Workshop on Military Medical Ethics. Bern. ISBN 978-3-905782-94-3; Messelken, Daniel and Hans U. Baer, Editors (2014), Proceedings of the 3rd ICMM Workshop on Military Medical Ethics. Bern. ISBN 978-3-905782-97-4
Military Medical Ethics Vol. 1 (2003) and Military Medical Ethics Vol. 2 (2003) - Explores the ongoing tension between the medical profession and the profession of arms as experienced by the military physician, including an extensive and detailed discussion of the many lessons learned from previous wars.
Military medical personnel engage in humanitarian work and are "protected persons" under international humanitarian law in accordance with the First and Second Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, which established legally binding rules guaranteeing neutrality and protection for wounded soldiers, field or ship's medical personnel, and specific humanitarian institutions in an ...
His contention is that medical ethics in time of war cannot be identical to medical ethics in peacetime. He is also the author of Moral Dilemmas of Modern War: Torture, Assassination, and Blackmail in an Age of Asymmetric Conflict (2010), Cambridge University Press , a wide-ranging study of military ethics , terrorism, modern weaponry and ...
The Army has addresses for only 1000 of the 2300 people known to have volunteered. [4] Only about 500 (23%) of the Whitecoats have been surveyed, and the military chose not to fund blood tests. [ 1 ] A handful of respondents claim to have lingering health effects, [ 4 ] and at least one subject claims to have serious health problems as a result ...
Medical ethics is an applied branch of ethics which analyzes the practice of clinical medicine and related scientific research. [1] Medical ethics is based on a set of values that professionals can refer to in the case of any confusion or conflict. These values include the respect for autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice. [2]
Jonathan D. Moreno (born June 11, 1952) is an American philosopher and historian who specializes in the intersection of bioethics, culture, science, and national security, and has published seminal works on the history, sociology and politics of biology and medicine.
The Army Nurse Corps originated in 1901, the Dental Corps began in 1911, the Veterinary Corps in 1916, the Medical Service Corps emerged in 1917 (during WW I the Sanitary Corps was created as a temporary organization to relieve U.S. Army physicians from a variety of duties), [3] and the Army Medical Specialist Corps came into existence in 1947.