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- Title
Global Peace as a Professional Concern, I.
- Authors
Perry, Thomas L.
- Abstract
The most serious threat currently facing people all over the world is that of a global nuclear war, in which hundreds of millions of people would be killed by the immediate effects of nuclear explosions, and over a billion others would later die of cold and starvation in the ensuing nuclear winter. Physicians and other health professionals have an ethical responsibility to educate themselves, their patients, and the public to the need for major political changes to achieve multilateral disarmament and thus prevent nuclear war. Scientists ought to oppose all research and government expenditures preparing for war, and should participate only in work designed to improve health and living standards for all the world's inhabitants.
- Subjects
WAR &; society; PEACE; NUCLEAR warfare; INTERNATIONAL relations; NUCLEAR explosions; WAR &; ethics; NUCLEAR winter; DISARMAMENT; PROFESSIONAL ethics; HUMANITARIANISM; ALTRUISM; TREE of life; EDUCATION
- Publication
Journal of Business Ethics, 1989, Vol 8, Issue 2/3, p167
- ISSN
0167-4544
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00382579