Declaration of Geneva

This article is about a declaration in the medical profession. For other uses, see Geneva Declaration (disambiguation).

The Declaration of Geneva was adopted by the General Assembly of the World Medical Association at Geneva in 1948, amended in 1968, 1983, 1994, editorially revised in 2005 and 2006 and amended in 2017.

It is a declaration of a physician's dedication to the humanitarian goals of medicine, a declaration that was especially important in view of the medical crimes which had just been committed in German-occupied Europe. The Declaration of Geneva was intended as a revision[1] of the Hippocratic Oath to a formulation of that oath's moral truths that could be comprehended and acknowledged in a modern way.[2] Unlike the case of the Oath of Hippocrates, the World Medical Association calls the statement a "pledge".

  1. ^ "World Medical Association (2017) press release 12 May". Wma.net. 2017-05-08. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  2. ^ "International Code of Medical Ethics". World Medical Association. Archived from the original on 2008-09-20.