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Since the beginning of the Israel–Hamas war in 2023, the healthcare infrastructure within Gaza has been dismantled. While international humanitarian law mandates distinction between lawful targets (combatants and military objectives) and non-lawful targets (civilians and civilian objects), and acknowledging the inherent complexities of applying this principle in conflicts involving non-state actors like Hamas operating within civilian areas, numerous reports indicate that Israel's actions have resulted in significant and foreseeable consequences for the Gazan civilian population. Due to these substantial and foreseeable harms, which have led to a long-term humanitarian crisis, we argue that the Israeli government bears a moral responsibility to help mitigate the long-term humanitarian crisis, which, at a minimum, requires helping to rebuild the healthcare infrastructure to its status quo ante bellum.
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As medical technology continues to develop, the subject of bioethics has an ever increasing practical relevance for all those working in philosophy, medicine, law, sociology, public policy, education and related fields.
Bioethics provides a forum for well-argued articles on the ethical questions raised by current issues such as: international collaborative clinical research in developing countries; public health; infectious disease; AIDS; managed care; genomics and stem cell research. These questions are considered in relation to concrete ethical, legal and policy problems, or in terms of the fundamental concepts, principles and theories used in discussions of such problems.
Bioethics also features regular Background Briefings on important current debates in the field. These feature articles provide excellent material for bioethics scholars, teachers and students alike.
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