PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Per Nortvedt TI - Medical ethics manual: does it serve its purpose? AID - 10.1136/jme.2005.012724 DP - 2006 Mar 01 TA - Journal of Medical Ethics PG - 159--160 VI - 32 IP - 3 4099 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/32/3/159.short 4100 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/32/3/159.full SO - J Med Ethics2006 Mar 01; 32 AB - World Medical Association. Ethics manual. Ferney-Voltaire: WMA, 2005. http://www.wma.net/e/ethicsunit/pdf/manual/ethics_manual.pdf (available for download). This manual of medical ethics is meant to serve the purpose of a guiding teaching aid for medical students as well as physicians. It was decided upon and planned by the World Medical Assembly in 1999 and the work was supervised and coordinated by the WMA Ethics Unit.