World Medical Association (WMA), där Sveriges läkarförbund är medlem, har antagit ett stort antal policies rörande etiska frågor, däribland:
- Declaration of Geneva (The Physician´s Pledge)
- International Code of medical ethics
- Declaration of Lisbon on the rights of the patient
- Declaration of Helsinki – Ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects (inofficiell svensk översättning)
- Declaration of Taipei on ethical considerations regarding health databases and biobanks
- Declaration of Tokyo Guidelines for physicians concerning torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in relation to detention and imprisonment
- Declaration of Malta on hunger strikers
- Statement on medical care for refugees
- Statement on organ and tissue donation
- Statement on aesthetic treatment
- Statement on boxing
- Resolution on medical assistance in air travel
- Statement on nuclear weapons
- Declaration of Delhi on health and climate change
- Statement on the role of physicians in environmental issues
- Declaration on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
- Declaration of Reykjavik – Ethical considerations regarding the use of genetics in health care.