Recently, there has been a tremendous interest in the ethical issues that confront physicians in times of war, as well as some of the uses of physicians during wars. This book presents a theoretical apparatus which underpins those debates, namely by casting physicians as being faced with dual-loyalties during times of war. While this theoretical apparatus has been developed in other contexts, it has not been specifically brought to bear on the ethical conflicts that wars bring.
Author(s): Fritz Allhoff
Edition: 1
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 271
Contents......Page 7
Introduction......Page 13
Physicians at War: The Dual-Loyalties Challenge......Page 14
Part I: Physicians and Dual-Loyalties......Page 23
Dual-Loyalty and Human Rights in Health Professional Practice: Proposed Guidelines and Institutional Mechanisms......Page 24
Guidelines to Prevent the Malevolent Use of Physicians in War......Page 48
Dual Disloyalties: Law and Medical Ethics at Guantánamo Bay......Page 62
Toward a Framework for Military Health Ethics......Page 83
Part II: Physicians and Torture......Page 97
Physician Involvement in Hostile Interrogations......Page 98
Indecent Medicine Revisited: Considering Physician Involvement in Torture......Page 112
Torture and the Regulation of the Health Care Professions......Page 133
Part III: Physicians and Weapons Development......Page 154
Is Medicine a Pacifist Vocation or Should Doctors Help Build Bombs?......Page 155
The Case Against Doctor Involvement in Weapons Design and Development......Page 171
Armed Conflict and Value Conflict: Case Studies in Biological Weapons......Page 182
Ethics and the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Life Sciences......Page 197
Part IV: Physicians on the Battlefield......Page 214
Triage Priorities and Military Physicians......Page 215
Medical Neutrality and Political Activism: Physicians' Roles in Conflict Situations......Page 237
Appendix 1: Regulations in Time of Armed Conflict......Page 254
Appendix 2: Statement on Torture, Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment......Page 256
Appendix 3: Physician Participation in Interrogation (Res. 1, I-05)......Page 259
