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Participation in Torture and Interrogation: An Inexcusable Breach of Medical Ethics—A Call to Hold Military Medical Personnel Accountable to Accepted Professional Standards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2006

PHILIP R. LEE
Affiliation:
Stanford University and University of California, San Francisco
MARCUS CONANT
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco
ALBERT R. JONSEN
Affiliation:
California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California
STEVE HEILIG
Affiliation:
San Francisco Medical Society, California and Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Extract

The profession of medicine has developed codes of ethical conduct for thousands of years. From the Hippocratic Oath of ancient Greece onward to modern times, a universal and central element of such codes has expressed the imperative that a physician shall “Do no harm.”

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Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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