Hovering Between Roles: Military Medical Ethics

In Michael L. Gross & Don Carrick (eds.), Military Medical Ethics for the 21st Century. Ashgate (2012)
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Abstract

Changing faces of war and war-like situations have led in recent years to new forms of military deployment. They range from the so called "war on terrorism" with e.g Operation Enduring Freedom or humanitarian interventions (e.g. Kosovo 1999) to deployments within disaster relief missions as lately in Haiti. These pose not only moral, legal, and organizational challenges to states and the international community but also put individual soldiers and military (medical) personnel in situations that their classical formation does not prepare them for. For they face (i) situations not sufficiently covered/ regulated by international humanitarian (IHL) law and/or (ii) tasks that are not within the range of the "classical soldier". These changing needs require new forms of education in the military and highlight the role of ethical education as many of the dilemmas cannot be resolved by sole reference to the IHL. In addition to a solid knowledge of the law of armed conflict (LOAC), military personnel should therefore acquire fundamental skills of ethical reasoning in dilemma situations. Our article aims at (i) outlining the goals of a military medical ethics education that responds to these needs and the practical challenges of present-day military deployment and (ii) present how the ICMM tries to integrate these goals in its educational program.

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edition Messelken, Daniel; Baer, Hans U.; Gross, Michael L.; Carrick, Don (2013) "Hovering Between Roles: Military Medical Ethics". In , , pp. 261-278: (2013)

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Hans U. Baer
University of Bern
Daniel Messelken
University of Zürich

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