TY - JOUR T1 - Medical ethics manual: does it serve its purpose? JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 159 LP - 160 DO - 10.1136/jme.2005.012724 VL - 32 IS - 3 AU - Per Nortvedt Y1 - 2006/03/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/32/3/159.abstract N2 - 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. ER -