Welcome to the World Medical Association

Extracted from text ... The Geneva Convention, recited by most graduates upon admission to the medical profession, and the Helsinki Declaration, which provides ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects, have become part of the everyday vocabulary of physicians throughout the world. In these sad times of escalating conflict we are increasingly grateful for the declarations of Tokyo, which provides 'guidelines for physicians concerning torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in relation to detention and imprisonment', and Malta, which describes 'the ethical management of hunger strikes'. All of these plus regulations for 'the care of the sick and ..