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AMA Code of Medical Ethics' Opinions on Quarantine and Physician Duty to Treat

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: Opinion 2.25 – The Use of Quarantine and Isolation as Public Health Interventions Quarantine and isolation to protect the population’s health potentially conflict with the individual rights of liberty and self-determination. The medical profession, in collaboration with public health colleagues, must take an active role in ensuring that those interventions are based on science and are applied according to certain ethical considerations. To this end, the medical profession should:

Source: The AMA Journal of Ethic

DOI: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2010.12.9.coet1-1009

Author: AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs

Language: English

Topic: Ethics and bioethics in healthcare

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4246039227

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