Medical ethics and human rights in wartime

Medical ethics and human rights in wartime.

Fluoridation: a violation of medical ethics and human rights.

Silicofluorides, widely used in water fluoridation, are unlicensed medicinal substances, administered to large populations without informed consent or supervision by a qualified medical practitioner. Fluoridation fails the test of reliability and specificity, and, lacking toxicity testing of silicofluorides, constitutes unlawful medical research. It is banned in most of Europe; European Union h...

Wartime sexual violence: women’s human rights and questions of masculinity

This article examines wartime sexual violence, one of the most recurring wartime human rights abuses. It asserts that our theorisations need further development, particularly in regard to the way that masculinities and the intersections with constructions of ethnicity feature in wartime sexual violence. The article also argues that although women and girls are the predominant victims of sexual ...

Achieving Gold Standards in Ethics and Human Rights in Medical Practice

C hen Reis and colleagues' study in this month's PLoS Medicine showed that most Nigerian physicians commendably appeared to be providing appropriate care for HIV/AIDS patients [1]. However, 9% refused to care for such patients, 9% admitted they had refused a patient with HIV/AIDS admission to hospital, and 20% felt that many of these patients had behaved immorally and deserved the disease. The ...

Armauer Hansen and human leprosy transmission: medical ethics and legal rights.

../ The centenary of the discovery of the leprosy hacillus is an appropriate occasion on which to revive the Illelllory of a criminal prosecution which is quite exceptional , at any rate in Norwcgian legal annals. The special interest of the case lies pmtly in its close concern with the personal and professional integrity of an eminent physician and scientist, and partly in its probing of the q...