Bioethics and armed conflict moral dilemmas of medicine and war
An analysis of medical ethics during war and the inherent conflict between the principles of bioethics and the morally legitimate but competing demands of military necessity.
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Cambridge, MA
MIT Press
2006
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| Series: | Basic bioethics
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | |a 1. Setting the stage -- The role of medicine in armed conflict -- Military ethics and humanitarian law -- Contemporary biomedical ethics -- Moral dilemmas of medicine and war -- 2. The ethics of medicine and the ethics of war -- Life, dignity, and utility -- The right to life -- Autonomy and dignity -- Dignity : an absolute moral right? -- Utility : limiting harm and achieving good -- Bioethics, war, and necessity -- 3. Medical care for the wounded -- Evacuating and treating the wounded -- Why treat the wounded? -- Medical care and military necessity -- Medical care and morale -- Medical care and political obligation -- The limits of military medical care -- 4. Patient rights for soldiers -- Informed consent during armed conflict -- Confidentiality -- Battlefield euthanasia and the right to die -- Patient rights in war and peace. 5. Wartime triage -- The moral dilemmas of triage -- Triage, medical need, and military utility -- Distributing medical knowledge to the enemy -- Alternatives to triage -- Tragedy and triage : a second look -- 6. Medical neutrality -- Medical neutrality and armed conflict -- Medical neutrality and unconventional conflict -- Medical immunity in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict -- Medical impartiality in the Vietnam war -- The challenge of medical neutrality -- 7. Torture, ill-treatment, and interrogation -- The dilemma of torture -- Torture, ill-treatment, and terror -- Justifying torture and ill-treatment -- Torture and the role of physicians -- The shame of torture -- 8. Chemical and biological warfare -- Historical overview -- The inhumanity of chemical and biological weapons -- Bioethics and unconventional deterrence -- Nonlethal chemical and biological weapons -- Weapons development and the medical community -- 9. Bioethics and the end of armed conflict -- Pacifism, peace, medicine, and war -- Vocational pacifism -- Physician-assisted draft evasion -- Medicine and pacifism : the quest for world peace -- The lure of pacifism and peace. 10. The moral dilemmas of medicine and war -- The transformation of ethics during war -- The transformation of medical ethics during war -- Armed conflict and professional obligation | ||
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