Physician rights

Physician participation in human rights abuses in southern Iraq.

CONTEXT Physicians are known to have participated in human rights abuses in Iraq during Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime, but the nature and extent of that participation are not well documented. OBJECTIVES To characterize the nature of physician participation in human rights abuses, identify structural factors that facilitated physician participation, and assess approaches for accountability ...

Last rights? Confronting physician-assisted suicide in law and society: legal liturgies on physician-assisted suicide.

and the Director of the Center for Law and Aging at Stetson. ** Dr. D. Dixon Sutherland is a Professor of Religious Studies at Stetson University and the Director of the Institute for Christian Ethics. 1. The term of art for this has been dubbed by the popular press as physicianassisted suicide (PAS). However, describing the requested act as a suicide has added confusion to the debate over PAS,...

Patient and physician autonomy: conflicting rights and obligations in the physician-patient relationship.

In sum, beneficence and autonomy must be mutually re-enforcing if the patient's good is to be served, if the physician's ability to serve that good is not to be compromised, and if the physician's moral claim to autonomy and the integrity of the whole enterprise of medical ethics are to be respected.

"Human Rights"؛ "Citizen Rights"؛ "Human Rights Declaration"؛ " Middle Eastern States"

حقوق بشر و حقوق شهروندی از حقوق ذاتی و طبیعی انسان نشأت گرفته و در طول تاریخ بین اندیشمندان مناطق مختلف جهان و همچنین در مکاتب الهی توجه خاصی به آنها شده است. اما متاسفانه تا پایان جنگ جهانی دوم حقوق بشر بصورت گسترده اقبالی کسب ننمود. اگر چه با اعلامیه جهانی حقوق بشر سال 1948 و دیگر کنوانسیون های مربوطه، حقوق بشر شکل جهان شمولی بخود گرفته ولی هنوز بسیاری از دولتهای خاورمیانه حاضر به پذیرش تمامی...

Genetic diagnosis and intellectual property rights: a proposal to amend "the physician immunity statute".