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- Title: Dual Loyalties: How to Resolve Ethical Conflict.
- Author : South African Journal of Bioethics and Law
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 247 KB
Description
Not long ago, when the term 'dual loyalties of health professionals' was mentioned, many listeners thought immediately of South Africa. The widespread publicity given to the actions of individual physicians and the South African medical profession in general in the Steve Biko case and subsequently (1) raised the issue of dual loyalty conflicts in their starkest form. The 2002 report of the International Dual Loyalty Working Group (2) built on the South African experience and set it in a broader international context. Since then, revelations about the complicity of medical personnel in gross violations of human rights in Iraq and elsewhere (3) have shown that dual loyalty continues to be an issue of global proportions, for which guidance is urgently needed. The purpose of this article is to offer such guidance. It will begin with an analysis of the term 'dual loyalties', followed by a review of dual loyalty conflicts in health care. It will then suggest ways in which such conflicts can be either prevented or managed.