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Military medical ethics in contemporary armed conflict : mobilizing medicine in the pursuit of just war / Michael L. Gross. [electronic resource]

By: Series: Oxford medicine onlinePublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021Description: 1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations (black and white)Content type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780190694975 (ebook) :
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 174.2 23
LOC classification:
  • R725.5
Online resources: Summary: This work offers a critical assessment of the practice of military medical ethics during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It consolidates the medical, military, philosophical, legal, and scientific data from the last twenty years of fighting by multinational forces in the Middle East and presents a comprehensive theory of military medical ethics for present and future conflicts that incorporates military necessity, interests of state, the demands of just war, and important distinctions among military and civilian actors.
Holdings
Item type Home library Class number URL Status Date due Barcode
E-book University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay - Furness NHS Library Link to resource Not for loan
E-book University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay - Lancaster NHS Library Link to resource Not for loan

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This work offers a critical assessment of the practice of military medical ethics during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It consolidates the medical, military, philosophical, legal, and scientific data from the last twenty years of fighting by multinational forces in the Middle East and presents a comprehensive theory of military medical ethics for present and future conflicts that incorporates military necessity, interests of state, the demands of just war, and important distinctions among military and civilian actors.

Specialized.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 21, 2021).