Physicians at War : The Dual-Loyalties Challenge

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.

Preface; Introduction: Allhoff Physicians at War: The Dual-Loyalties Challenge; Section 1: Physicians and Dual-Loyalties; IDLWG: Dual-loyalty & Human Rights in Health Professional Practice...; Frisina: Guidelines to Prevent the Malevolent Use of Physicians in War; Marks: Dual Disloyalties: Law and Medical Ethics at Guantánamo Bay; Pearce/Saul: Toward a Framework for Military Health Ethics; Section 2:Physicians and Torture; Allhoff: Physician Involvement in Hostile Interrogations; Matthews:Indecent Medicine Revisited: Considering Physician Involvement in Torture; Lunstroth: Torture and the Regulation of the Health Care Professions; Section 3: Physicians and Weapons Development; Gross: Is Medicine a Pacifist Vocation or: Should Doctors Help Build Bombs? Nathanson: The Case against Doctor Involvement in Weapons Design and Development; Selgelid: Armed Conflict and Value Conflict: Case Studies in Biological Weapons; Miller/Selgelid: Ethics and the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Life Sciences; Section 4: Physicians on the Battlefield; Adams: Triage Priorities and Military Physicians; List: Medical Neutrality and Political Activism: Physicians'' Roles in Conflict Situations; Appendices: WMA Regulations in Time of Armed Conflict; WMA Statement on Torture, Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment; CEJA Physician Participation in Interrogation.