World Medical Association

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The World Medical Association ( World Medical Association , WMA) is a federation of national medical associations. It was founded in 1947 and represents 112 national professional associations (as of August 2016). Individual doctors can also join as associate members. The World Medical Association tries to promote a high ethical standard in health care and to provide doctors with ethical guidelines in the form of declarations and statements. German member is the German Medical Association in Berlin.

Annual general assembly

The organisation's decision-making body is the annual general assembly, to which representatives of the national professional associations and associated members are sent. Well-known resolutions are the Geneva Doctors' Vow written in 1948 and the Declaration of Helsinki from 1964. These core declarations on ethical principles of medical practice were updated and supplemented at various general assemblies to include statements on human experiments , organ transplantation , in vitro fertilization , gene therapy , genetic engineering and euthanasia . The collection of declarations and declarations of the World Medical Association includes further ethical and social topics from the medical professional field, e.g. B. on the definition of the time of death, on termination of pregnancy , on the prohibition of participation in corporal punishment, the declaration on the use and abuse of psychotropic drugs , declarations on the risk of tobacco consumption , on problems of the environment and demographics and individual resolutions on human rights violations in various countries.

The 66th General Assembly took place in Moscow in 2015 . The 67th General Assembly met in Taipei in October 2016 .

history

In July 1945 an informal meeting of doctors from different countries took place in London . You advised on a successor organization to L'Association Professionelle Internationale des Médecins . This was founded in 1926, but had ceased its work with the beginning of the Second World War . On September 18, 1947, representatives of 27 national medical organizations met for the first general assembly of the World Medical Association in France. The Secretariat, which was originally based in New York, moved to Ferney-Voltaire , France , in 1974 .

The West German doctors had been represented in the World Medical Association by the working group of the West German Medical Chambers since 1951 , after this association based on the documentation Doctors of Infamy. The story of the Nazi medical crimes (1947/1949) or science without humanity. Medical and eugenic aberrations under dictatorship, bureaucracy and war (1949) and a speech by Hans Neuffer in Copenhagen in 1950 was accepted into the World Medical Association.

Frank Ulrich Montgomery was unanimously elected chairman of the board for two years at the meeting of the board of the World Medical Association on April 25, 2019 in Santiago de Chile .

WMA General Secretaries

  • 1947–1961: Louis H. Bauer , USA
  • 1961: Heinz Lord , Germany
  • 1961–1965: Harry S. Gear, South Africa
  • 1965–1973: Alberto Z. Romualdez, Philippines
  • 1973–1976: William Refshauge, Australia
  • 1976–1993: André Wynen , Belgium
  • 1994-1997: Ian T. Field, UK
  • 1997-2004: Delon Human, South Africa
  • since 2005: Otmar Kloiber , Germany

Web links

Individual references, comments

  1. ↑ WMA Members' List. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 18, 2016 ; accessed on August 18, 2016 .
  2. ↑ WMA General Assembly, Chicago 2017. (No longer available online.) In: www.wma.net. April 12, 2017, archived from the original on June 11, 2016 ; accessed on June 11, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Jürgen Peter : The controversial fate of the documentation "Science without Humanity" (1949) , Chapter 3.3, in: The Nuremberg Medical Process as reflected in its processing based on the three document collections by Alexander Mitscherlich and Fred Mielke , Lit-Verlag, Münster 1994; 2nd edition 1998, 3rd, revised edition, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8258-2112-8 , pp. 68–71.
  4. ↑ Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen, "Science without humanity - medicine and anti-Semitism", in: psychosozial , 22 (1999), volume IV (no. 78), pp. 21-30.
  5. ↑ World Medical Association selects Montgomery Chief Executive Officer , Press Release German Medical Association , April 29, 2019. Accessed April 30 of 2019.
  6. ↑ Officials. In: www.wma.net. Retrieved June 11, 2016 .