Military Medical Ethics: Issues Regarding Dual Loyalties: Workshop Summary

by Catharyn T. Liverman and Neil E. Weisfeld

Dual loyalties exist in many medical fields, from occupational health to public health. Military health professionals, as all health professionals, are ethically responsible for their patients' well-being. In some situations, however, military health professionals can face unique ethical tensions between responsibilities to individual patients and responsibilities to military operations.

This book summarizes the one-day workshop, Military...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309126630
• ISBN13: 9780309126632
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.8"