Ethics of Medical Innovation, Experimentation, and Enhancement in Military and Humanitarian Contexts
Author | : Daniel Messelken |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3030363198 |
This book discusses ethical questions surrounding research and innovation in military and humanitarian contexts. It focuses on human enhancement in the military. Recently, the availability of medical enhancement designed to make soldiers more capable of surviving during conflict, as well as enabling them to defeat their enemies, has emerged. Innovation and medical research in military and humanitarian contexts may thus yield positive effects, but simultaneously leads to a number of highly problematic ethical issues. The work contains contributions on medical ethics that take into account the specific roles and obligations of military and humanitarian health care providers and the ethical problems they encounter. They cover different aspects of research and innovation such as vaccine development, medical enhancement, compassionate and experimental drug use, research and application of new technologies such as wearables, “Humanitarian innovation” to cope with scarce resources, Biometrics, big data, etc.The book is of interest and importance to researchers and policy makers involved with human enhancement, medical research, and innovation in military and humanitarian missions.
Military Medical Ethics
Author | : |
Publisher | : Department of the Army |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
2 volumes, sold as a set. Textbooks of Military Medicine. Section editors Edmund D. Pelegrino, Anthony E. Hartle, and Edmund G. Howe, et al. Addresses medical ethics within a military context.
Military Medical Ethics in Contemporary Armed Conflict
Author | : Michael L. Gross |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0190694947 |
"The goal of military medicine is to conserve the fighting force necessary to prosecute just wars. Just wars are defensive or humanitarian. A defensive war protects one's people or nation. A humanitarian war rescues a foreign, persecuted people or nation from grave human rights abuse. To provide medical care during armed conflict, military medical ethics supplements civilian medical ethics with two principles: military-medical necessity and broad beneficence. Military-medical necessity designates the medical means required to pursue national self-defense or humanitarian intervention. While clinical-medical necessity directs care to satisfy urgent medical needs, military-medical necessity utilizes medical care to satisfy the just aims of war. Military medicine may therefore attend the lightly wounded before the critically wounded or use medical care to win hearts and minds. The underlying principle is broad, not narrow, beneficence. The latter addresses private interests, while broad beneficence responds to the collective welfare of the political community"--
Fundamentals of Military Medicine
Author | : Francis G. O'Connor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Medicine, Military |
ISBN | : 9780160949609 |
Military Medical Ethics for the 21st Century
Author | : Michael L. Gross |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2016-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 131709610X |
As asymmetric ’wars among the people’ replace state-on-state wars in modern armed conflict, the growing role of military medicine and medical technology in contemporary war fighting has brought an urgent need to critically reassess the theory and practice of military medical ethics. Military Medical Ethics for the 21st Century is the first full length, broad-based treatment of this important subject. Written by an international team of practitioners and academics, this book provides interdisciplinary insights into the major issues facing military-medical decision makers and critically examines the tensions and dilemmas inherent in the military and medical professions. In this book the authors explore the practice of battlefield bioethics, medical neutrality and treatment of the wounded, enhancement technologies for war fighters, the potential risks of dual-use biotechnologies, patient rights for active duty personnel, military medical research and military medical ethics education in the 21st Century.