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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 ,
MARCUS CONANT ,
ALBERT R. JONSEN  and
STEVE HEILIG
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
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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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PERSPECTIVES
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 202 - 203
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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