Military Medical Ethics in Contemporary Armed Conflict: Mobilizing Medicine in the Pursuit of Just War

by Michael L Gross and Michael L. Gross

Beleaguered countries struggling against aggression or powerful nations defending others from brutal regimes mobilize medicine to wage just war. As states funnel medical resources to maintain unit readiness and conserve military capabilities, numerous ethical challenges foreign to peacetime medicine result. Force conservation drives combat hospitals to prioritize warfighter care over all others. Civilians find themselves bereft of medical attention;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190694947
• ISBN13: 9780190694944
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"