Bioethics and armed conflict: mapping the moral dimensions of medicine and war

Hastings Cent Rep. 2004 Nov-Dec;34(6):22-30.

Abstract

Medical ethics in times of war are fundamentally different from those in times of peace. War brings military and medical values into conflict, often overwhelming other moral obligations, such as a doctor's charge to relieve suffering, in the face of military necessity.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Bioethics
  • Choice Behavior / ethics*
  • Conflict of Interest*
  • Ethical Theory*
  • Ethics, Medical*
  • Humans
  • International Cooperation
  • Military Medicine / ethics*
  • Military Personnel
  • Moral Obligations*
  • Patient Rights
  • Personal Autonomy
  • Physician's Role
  • Physicians / ethics*
  • Politics
  • Prisoners
  • Self Concept
  • United Nations
  • Warfare*