title: [Background of a new delineation of the medical profession].
abstract: The survival of mankind is jeopardized in a hitherto unprecedented manner by the three global-scale interacting worldillnesses, i.e., overpopulation, environmental deterioration, and the extermination potential of the modern arsenals of atomic, biologic and chemical weapons. These self-created hazards should appeal to new accountability, to a rethinking of our medical duties and actions. With their consequences they form the background of a new delineation of the medical profession.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Umweltmedizin am Kantonsspital Luzern. janolaf.gebbers@ksl.ch
authors.forename: J O
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Gebbers
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001694:Biological Warfare; D002618:Chemical Warfare; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D017753:Ecosystem; D004787:Environmental Pollution; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008511:Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D009689:Nuclear Warfare; D011155:Population Control; D011156:Population Density; D011247:Pregnancy; D018456:Reproductive Medicine