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Physicians at War: The Dual-Loyalties Challenge

Physicians at War: The Dual-Loyalties Challenge

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Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, Book 41

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ISBN10: 1402069111
ISBN13: 9781402069116
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Apr 3 2008
Pages: 274
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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