1. The responsibility to prevent, the duty to educate
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Sheena Eagan Chamberlin, Olga Riklikiene, Jamie Vescio, Zohar Lederman, Eleonora Gregori Ferri, Alexandra Cernat, Bryanna Moore, Mayli Mertens, Guiomar Micol Andrea Levi-Setti, Franco Galbo, and Philosophy
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Medical education ,Conflict ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Dual loyalty ,History of medicine ,0603 philosophy, ethics and religion ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Political science ,Humans ,Duty ,media_common ,Social Responsibility ,business.industry ,Conflict of Interest ,Conflict of interest ,030208 emergency & critical care medicine ,06 humanities and the arts ,General Medicine ,Public relations ,n/a OA procedure ,Issues, ethics and legal aspects ,Philosophy of medicine ,060301 applied ethics ,business ,Social responsibility - Abstract
We are participants and instructors of Yale University’s 2015 Sherwin B. Nuland Summer Institute in Bioethics. We took part in a seminar that critically examined the problem of dual loyalty and medical ethics in times of conflict, war, and genocide. While health care professionals (HCPs) commit themselves to the health and wellbeing of their individual patients, they may occasionally be called upon to serve the governing authority in ways that conflict with this commitment. Specifically, military HCPs may encounter situations in which ethical tensions arise between the obligations owed to individual patients and those owed to their commanders and the military mission. This seemingly conflicting set of obligations held by the military HCP is commonly referred to as ‘the problem of dual loyalty’ or ‘mixed-agency’ [1, 2].
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- 2016
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