Participation in Torture and Interrogation: An Inexcusable Breach of Medical Ethics—A Call to Hold Military Medical Personnel Accountable to Accepted Professional Standards

The profession of medicine has developed codes of ethical conduct for thousands of years. From the Hippocratic Oath of ancient Greece onward to modern times, a universal and central element of such codes has expressed the imperative that a physician shall “Do no harm.”

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Authors: Lee, Philip R. (Author) ; Conant, Marcus (Author) ; Jonsen, Albert R. (Author) ; Heilig, Steve (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2006
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2006, Volume: 15, Issue: 2, Pages: 202-203
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Summary:The profession of medicine has developed codes of ethical conduct for thousands of years. From the Hippocratic Oath of ancient Greece onward to modern times, a universal and central element of such codes has expressed the imperative that a physician shall “Do no harm.”
ISSN:1469-2147
Contains:Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0963180106060245