Linklist: Ethics Frameworks

A number of organisations and researchers have published frameworks of ethical decision making to help finding the right decision in difficult situations. The following list contains a selection of such frameworks that have been specifically designed for either the military or humanitarian context.

Frameworks and tools for ethical decision making

BMA Armed Forces Ethics Toolkit
"This tool kit signposts the kinds of ethical factors you need to take into consideration when making ethical decisions."
https://www.bma.org.uk/advice/employment/ethics/armed-forces-ethics-toolkit
Humanitarian Health Ethics Analysis Tool (HHEAT)
"HHEAT is an ethical analysis tool designed to help humanitarian healthcare workers make ethical decisions. This tool can be used in pre-departure training to work through common cases and scenarios, in the field when ethical issues arise, or in debriefing sessions after particularly difficult decisions."
https://humanitarianhealthethics.net/home/hheat/

Selected literature

Beam, T.E. (Ed.), 2003. Military Medical Ethics, vols. 1 and 2. Borden Institute, Washington.
Vol1 http://www.cs.amedd.army.mil/borden/Portlet.aspx?ID=106cb6b1-3327-47f3-a350-b2fb57beb928
vol2 http://www.cs.amedd.army.mil/borden/Portlet.aspx?ID=d25c00de-8284-40bf-8448-72a775fb5110
Gross, M.L., Carrick, D. (Eds.), 2013. Military medical ethics for the 21st century. Ashgate.
Levy, B.S., Sidel, V.W., 2008. War and public health. Oxford University Press, New York.
Mehring, S., 2015. First Do no Harm. Medical Ethics in International Humanitarian Law. Leiden: Brill
Messelken, D., Baer, H.U. (Eds.), 2013. Proceedings of 2nd ICMM Workshop on Military Medical Ethics. Bern: BBL.
http://publications.melac.ch/
Messelken, D., Baer, H.U. (Eds.), 2014. Proceedings of 3rd ICMM Workshop on Military Medical Ethics. Bern: BBL. http://publications.melac.ch/
Messelken, D., Winkler, D (Eds.), 2015. Proceedings of 4th ICMM Workshop on Military Medical Ethics. Bern: BBL. http://publications.melac.ch/
Rubenstein, L.S., 2004. "Medicine and War". The Hastings Center Report 34, 3â€“3.
Slim, H. 2015. Humanitarian ethics : a guide to the morality of aid in war and disaster. New York: Oxford University Press.
zebis (ed.). 2015. "Saving the Enemy? Military Medical Personnel under Fire". Ethics and Armed Forces. Issue 2015/1.

Courses

ICMM Course on Military Medical Ethics in Times of Armed Conflict
http://mme.melac.ch/

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