Physicians at War

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Physicians and Dual-Loyalties

   1. Physicians at War: The Dual-Loyalties Challenge

      • Fritz Allhoff

      Pages 3-11

   2. Dual-Loyalty and Human Rights in Health Professional Practice: Proposed Guidelines and Institutional Mechanisms

      • International Dual-Loyalty Working Group

      Pages 15-38

   3. Guidelines to Prevent the Malevolent Use of Physicians in War

      • Michael E. Frisina

      Pages 39-52

   4. Dual Disloyalties: Law and Medical Ethics at Guantánamo Bay

      • Jonathan H. Marks

      Pages 53-73

   5. Toward a Framework for Military Health Ethics

      • Gervase Pearce, Peter Saul

      Pages 75-88

3. Physicians and Torture

   1. Physician Involvement in Hostile Interrogations

      • Fritz Allhoff

      Pages 91-104

   2. Indecent Medicine Revisited: Considering Physician Involvement in Torture

      • Richard Matthews

      Pages 105-125

   3. Torture and the Regulation of the Health Care Professions

      • John Lunstroth

      Pages 127-147

4. Physicians and Weapons Development

   1. Is Medicine a Pacifist Vocation or Should Doctors Help Build Bombs?

      • Michael L. Gross

      Pages 151-166

   2. The Case Against Doctor Involvement in Weapons Design and Development

      • Vivienne Nathanson

      Pages 167-177

   3. Armed Conflict and Value Conflict: Case Studies in Biological Weapons

      • Michael J. Selgelid

      Pages 179-193

   4. Ethics and the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Life Sciences

      • Seumas Miller, Michael J. Selgelid

      Pages 195-211

5. Physicians on the Battlefield

   1. Triage Priorities and Military Physicians

      • Marcus P. Adams

      Pages 215-236

   2. Medical Neutrality and Political Activism: Physicians' Roles in Conflict Situations

      • Justin M. List

      Pages 237-253

6. Back Matter

   Pages 255-271

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This paper offers a brief examination of ethical health issues arising from military operations and outlines which, if any, of these ethical health issues apply to current Australian Defence Force (ADF) military operations. The transparency of military operations provided through real time global media reporting and the Internet, has raised public awareness of incidents that can be viewed broadly as ethical issues or dilemmas. While many of these issues are not new, it is the changing context of post cold war military operations and scale and demand of humanitarian operations that places new requirements on how the ADF best addresses these potential issues before they become critical incidents. In identifying potential ethical issues arising from military health operations, it is recognized that military health personnel operate within a command and control organizational structure and associated culture. It is also recognized that the complexity of the issues and the environment within which military health personnel are expected to operate will raise ethical health issues not likely to be encountered to the same degree by those health practitioners operating in the average suburban practice or hospital, except when health personnel are confronted with large scale emergencies, such as those encountered with recent terrorist attacks and massacres.

• Ethical Issues
• Medical Ethics
• ethics
• human rights
• issue

From the reviews:

"Physicians at war: The dual-loyalties challenge is a collection of essays which provide philosophical, political, and legal perspectives on many of the conflicting obligations which physicians may face during times of armed conflict. … valuable for anyone who is concerned about the role and obligations of physicians in national security/defense issues. … this book has important implications for other areas of medicine were physicians find themselves called upon to use their medical skills and knowledge in service of the state." (Jason Gatliff, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Vol. 6, 2009)

• Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA

  Fritz Allhoff

Policies and ethics