Due to the COVID19 situation, a number of conferences and publications have been put on hold until 2021.
The International Committee on Military Medicine book "The
Impact of the Duty to Obey Orders in Relation to Medical Care in the Military" which was going to be published by Springer in May 2020, will now be delayed until 2021. For that reason, I am uploading my In Press copy of my chapter When to Suspend Bioethical Principles in Military Medicine for Operational Purposes : a Framework Approach, as it directly discusses the medical decision-making process during a pandemic.
Military Ethics is often discussed either in terms of scholarly articles regarding the morality of war, or increasingly as a set of rules to be followed to avoid scandal. Military Ethics is much more than these two extremes, and covers a wide range of situations and issues - some of which are common in society, but many of which are unique to the military environment. This site is an opportunity to explore the more human side of military ethics.