Dual Loyalty & Human Rights In Health Professional Practice; Proposed Guidelines & Institutional Mechanisms

Principles of Medical Ethics are relevant to the role of health personnel, particularly physicians, in the protection of prisoners and detainees against torture, and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

WMA Declaration in Support of Medical Doctors Refusing to Participate in Torture - World Medical Association Declaration Concerning Support for Medical Doctors Refusing to Participate in, or to Condone, the Use of Torture or Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment. 1997