訓TED NATIONS Я Е Т 1 1 Г M A ^ T E B U S E T O NATIONS UNIES
W O R L D H E A L T H O R G A N I Z A T I O N
ROOM L-4
ORGANISATION M O N D I A L E D E LA SANTÉ
EXECUTIVE BOARD ЕБ4/9
3 June I949
Fourth Session OIHGINALs FRMiCH
ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INTERNATIONAL CODE OF DEONTOLOGY
The Director-General has the honour to transmit to the Executive Board the text of a resolution adopted on 8 April 1949, by the
Académie Nationale de Médecine of France and transmitted by the League of Red Cross Societies,‘France, concerning the establishment of an international code of deontology:-
(Translation)
"The Académie Nationale de Médecine, recalling the Nuremburg trials and the crimes committed during wars and conflicts of all kinds against wounded and sick persons, prisoners of war or internees, and refusing to allow a medical body to be made the instrument of any sort of compulsion prejudicial to their physical, moral or intellectual integrity, Resolves tha、 the practice of the medical profession, in time of war as in time of peace, should be interpreted by an inter- national code of deontology of an obligatory character, to be established by an international medical organi- zation; a code the teaching of which would be the rule in faculties and medical colleges of all countries.
The Académie Nationale de Médecine considers that the Vio rid Health Organization should be informed of this resolution and asks that it be transmitted to the League of Red Cross Societies by the French Red Cross, so as to be b r o u ^ t to the attention of all the national societies of the Red Cross and transmitted besides to all other organizations having an international
character."
In view of the foregoing, the following draft resolution is proposed to the Executive Board for consideration
The Executive Board
TAKES NOTE of the resolution adopted by the Académie Nationale de Médecine of France,
LEARNS with satisfaction that the question is being studied by the World Medical Association with a view to the establishment of an international code of deontology in connexion with the practice of the profession of medicine, and that the final draft as submitted by
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the Executive Board of the World Medical‘Association .to, 40 national m é d i c a l associations w i l l be consldereà b y the A n n u a l G e n e r a l
Assembly of the World Medical Association to .be held in London in
October I949； and "‘
REQUESTS the Director-General to keep in ¿Lose touch with this work and to report on it to the fifth session of the Board.
