Community Radio Pledge (pdf) - amarc

PhysiciansThe year 1947 saw formation of the World Medical Association (WMA)with a view to bring doctors from the around the world under one umbrella.The year 1948 saw formulation of the ethics for doctors from around theworld.It took next 16 years before the Helsinki Declaration came up withstipulations which must be acceded to while conducting research on humanbeings. Prior to this, doctors used to take the professional oath in the nameof Hippocrates, considered as the Father of Modern Medicine. Born in thefifth century BC, what is not certain is whether Hippocrates actually wrotedown the text of the oath. But it is considered that it goes back to his dayswhile the physicians ever since the first century AD considered what wasattributed to Hippocrates as ideal words. The period after the fourth centuryAD saw arrangement under which physicians are required to take what iscalled as Hippocratic Oath before practicing medicine.NursesThe year 1897 saw establishment of American Nurses Association (ANA).While the need for ethics for nurses to make them sensitive to their professionwas felt at that time, the ANA endorsed the ethics after nearly half a century inthe year 1950. The International Council of Nursing (ICN) issued a similarinternational code for nurses in the year 1973. The ethics has outlined theresponsibility of the nurses towards their profession, colleagues and patients.Prior to this, nursing as profession was being guided along by ideals attributedto Florence Nightingale.LawyersThe lawyers of the world founded International Bar Association (IBA)after the representatives from 34 countries assembled in New York inFebruary 1947. The association was nearly inactive after it was founded.The legal professions issued international ethics for lawyers in the year1956, which is nearly a decade after the first step.While poring through the history of legal professionals what one findsis Canons of Legal Ethics has been found to be in force in Great Britainsince the seventeenth century.JournalistsThe International Journalists Federation (IJF) issued its ethics in theyear 1954 after realizing the need for regulating the activities of journalists.It was taken as an indicator of the professional behavior of the journalistswhile it was issued.Evidently, the need for conduct to govern professions that was closely16