Editing Declaration of Geneva (section)

==Creation==
During the post [[World War II]] era and immediately after its foundation, the World Medical Association (WMA) showed concern over the state of medical ethics in general and all over the world, taking the responsibility for setting ethical guidelines for the world physicians. The details of the Nazi [[Doctors' Trial]] at Nuremberg which ended August 1947 and the revelations about what the [[Imperial Japanese Army]] had done at [[Unit 731]] in China during the war clearly demonstrated the need for reform, and for a re-affirmed set of guidelines regarding both human rights and the rights of patients.{{citation needed|date=June 2013}}

A study committee was appointed to prepare a "Charter of Medicine" which could be adopted as an oath or promise that every doctor in the world would make upon receiving their medical degree or diploma.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wma.net/who-we-are/history/ |title=The Story of WMA/ who we are/History |publisher=Cirp.org |date=2002-06-06 |access-date=2018-03-14}}</ref> It took two years of intensive study of the oaths and promises submitted by member associations to draft a modernized wording of the ancient oath of [[Hippocrates]] which was sent for consideration at the WMA's second general assembly in [[Geneva]] in 1948. The medical vow was adopted and the assembly agreed to name it the "Declaration of Geneva."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wma.net/en/60about/70history/index.html |title=WMA History |publisher=WMA |access-date=2013-06-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206154153/http://www.wma.net/en/60about/70history/index.html |archive-date=2015-02-06 }}</ref> This document was adopted by the World Medical Association only three months before the [[United Nations General Assembly]] adopted the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]] (1948) which provides for the security of the person.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/geneva/ |title=The Oath |publisher=Cirp.org |date=2002-06-06 |access-date=2013-06-04}}</ref>