Declaration of Geneva

The medical vow was adopted and the assembly agreed to name it the "Declaration of Geneva."

Declaration of Geneva (at foot of page)

Examples of such norms are the Hippocratic oath, the Declaration of Geneva.

These five points were adopted by the League of Nations in 1924 and was thus known as the Declaration of Geneva.

The Declaration of Geneva (medicine)

One of the most significant revisions is the Declaration of Geneva, first drafted in 1948 by the World Medical Association; it has since been revised several times.

The Declaration developed the ten principles first stated in the Nuremberg Code, and tied them to the Declaration of Geneva (1948), a statement of physician's ethical duties.

The Declaration of Geneva, a modernized version of the oath that was written by the World Medical Association in 1948, was administered in 28 percent of medical schools.

After the approval of the Declaration of Geneva, the II General Assembly of the World Medical Association analysed a report on "War Crimes and Medicine".

The Declaration of the Rights of the Child, or the Declaration of Geneva as it came to be known, was adopted a year later by the League of Nations.

The Declaration of Geneva was intended as a revision of the Oath of Hippocrates to a formulation of that oath's moral truths that could be comprehended and acknowledged in a modern way.

The Declaration of Geneva requires medical practitioners to state " will maintain the utmost respect for human life from its beginning even under threat and I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity".

It is a code based on the Declaration of Geneva and the main goal is to establish the ethical principles of the physicians worldwide, based on his duties in general, to his patients and to his colleagues.