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 Back to Calendar 2008

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Topic: Military Medical Ethics: An Overview
Presenter:
Rear Admiral select William R.Kiser, MC USN, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, (BUMED), Bethesda, Maryland
Location: Medical Teaching Facility (MTF) 175
Presentation
Abstract:
How do military medical ethics differ from the norms of non-military medical practice?  In what ways does war bring military and medical values into conflict?  How are moral obligations, such as a doctor's charge to relieve suffering, to be carried out in the face of military necessity?

This presentation aims to:
  1. Establish military medical ethos as the source/origin of military medical ethics
  2. Provide a short description of that ethos and how it may differ from the ethos of non-military practice
  3. Provide some examples in which that ethos impacts the understanding of ethical imperatives.
Suggested Reading:
  • Gross, ML, Bioethics and armed conflict: mapping the moral dimensions of medicine and war. Hastings Cent Rep. 2004 Nov-Dec;34(6):22-30.
Note: Readings are available through electronic reserves in the UCSD Biomedical Library. Go to http://reserves.ucsd.edu, click "STUDENTS - Find your reserve materials here", select the "Pages by Instructor" tab, select "Devereaux". Click on the SOM100 link, accept the copyright statement, and view the files on reserve. Relevant readings are in the folder for the month.