medical ethics

Prisoners seen at a courtyard in a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
The writing was on the wall for Israel’s torture of prisoners
The government has ensured that horrific practices in sites like Sde Teiman can continue with impunity, in violation of international law and medical ethics.
By Janan Abdu May 14, 2024
Medical team members wearing safety gear as they work in the coronavirus ward of the Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem, August 25, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
A medical school in the service of colonialism
Ariel University's new medicine faculty is part of a wider effort to normalize illegal settlements — and Israel's national medical body is defending it.
By Osama Tanous and Ghada Majadli March 3, 2022
Illustrative photo of Israeli physicians at a hospital. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
Israeli doctors refusing to force feed Palestinian hunger strikers
The Knesset passed a law allowing courts to order doctors to force feed Palestinian hunger strikers. But the doctors, it appears, aren’t  so keen on violating basic principles of medical ethics. By Bettina Birmans A human, medical and political drama unfolded over the past few weeks at Asaf Harofeh Medical Center, just outside of Tel Aviv.…
By +972 Magazine December 29, 2016
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A medic wheels away an Israeli security guard who was stabbed by two Palestinian boys at a tramway station in the settlement neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev in annexed East Jerusalem on November 10, 2015. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)
Violence sparks medical ethics fight in Israel
The medical establishment in Israel has come under fierce attack for abiding by the fundamental ethic of treating the most seriously wounded first — no matter who they are and what they have done. With the current escalation in violence throughout Israel-Palestine showing no signs of abating, the issue of medical ethics has found itself at…
By Natasha Soffer-Roth December 17, 2015
African asylum seekers show scars caused by torture from human smugglers in the Sinai desert, February 11, 2013. (Photo by Activestills.org)
What the bones remember: Israeli doctors talk torture
How can signs of deliberate physical injury be detected years after they were caused? What are the physical and psychological ramifications of torture for its victims? How can we cope with the moral dilemmas raised by treating captives and prisoners? Physicians who attended the first workshop in Israel devoted to locating and treating torture victims…
By +972 Magazine April 1, 2014
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