The Mind and Morality of the Doctor **
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چکیده
The world is occasionally shocked by the failure of physicians to act in a moral and responsible manner. During World War II, there were appalling atrocities committed in the name of nationalism by some German doctors. In 1948, the newly formed World Medical Association met in Geneva to draw up a declaration which would serve as an international code of ethics and help to impress on newly qualified doctors the fundamental ethics of medicine. There were two sections aimed particularly at preventing a recurrence of the bestiality practiced in Germany during Nazi domination. These ran as follows:
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
دوره 37 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1965