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- Title
Medical responsibility and thermonuclear war.
- Authors
Cassel, Christine; Jameton, Andrew; Cassel, C; Jameton, A
- Abstract
The attention of physicians is being drawn to the issue of nuclear weapons and nuclear war, creating controversy about whether a political concern is appropriate for health care professionals. The use of nuclear weapons would incur human death and injury on a scale both unprecedented and unimaginable, and possibly damage the ecosphere far beyond the weapons' immediate effects. Medical supplies and facilities would be nonexistent; no meaningful medical response would be possible. A physician's responsibility to prevent nuclear war is based on the imperative to prevent a devastating incurable disease that cannot be treated. Such an imperative is consistent with the historic tradition of the social responsibility of health professionals, and can be justified by philosophical argument.
- Subjects
MEDICINE &; war; MEDICAL practice; NUCLEAR warfare
- Publication
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1982, Vol 97, Issue 3, p426
- ISSN
0003-4819
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.7326/0003-4819-97-3-426