Physicians at War

• Physicians and Dual-Loyalties.- Physicians at War: The Dual-Loyalties Challenge.- Dual-Loyalty and Human Rights in Health Professional Practice: Proposed Guidelines and Institutional Mechanisms.- Guidelines to Prevent the Malevolent Use of Physicians in War.- Dual Disloyalties: Law and Medical Ethics at Guantánamo Bay.- Toward a Framework for Military Health Ethics.- Physicians and Torture.- Physician Involvement in Hostile Interrogations.- Indecent Medicine Revisited: Considering Physician Involvement in Torture.- Torture and the Regulation of the Health Care Professions.- Physicians and Weapons Development.- Is Medicine a Pacifist Vocation or Should Doctors Help Build Bombs?.- The Case Against Doctor Involvement in Weapons Design and Development.- Armed Conflict and Value Conflict: Case Studies in Biological Weapons.- Ethics and the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Life Sciences.- Physicians on the Battlefield.- Triage Priorities and Military Physicians.- Medical Neutrality and Political Activism: Physicians' Roles in Conflict Situations.

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)