The torture doctors : human rights crimes and the road to justice /

The torture doctors : human rights crimes and the road to justice /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Miles, Steven H., author.
Imprint:	Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2020]
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 207 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects. Physicians -- Professional ethics. Political prisoners -- Medical care -- Moral and ethical aspects. Human rights. Human rights. Physicians -- Professional ethics. Political prisoners -- Medical care -- Moral and ethical aspects. Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12542214

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ISBN:	1626167540 9781626167544 9781626167520
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 11, 2020).
Summary:	Steven H. Miles reveals a horrifying, global, yet hidden medical specialty: the torture doctor. Physicians are essential to the modern practice of torture. Their countries employ them to invent techniques to break people down without leaving scars. They falsify death certificates to say that a murdered prisoner died of natural causes, They monitor prisoners being tortured to keep them alive for the next day of pain. Torture doctors work for dictatorships and even democracies such as the United States, United Kingdom, and Spain. Doctors torture with impunity in most cases. With rare exceptions, governments protect them and medical associations and licensing boards leave them alone. This book examines who they are, what they do, and how they escape accountability. It also traces the beginnings of a movement to bring them to justice and recommends ways that the international human rights community can hold these perpetrators accountable. Finally, it shows how physicians can be brought back to their proper role of promoting health and human rights. This is a shocking and and little known story that must be revealed.

Table of Contents:

Meet the torture doctors
Dr. Chand sees a burned boy
Who are the torture doctors?
What is torture?
What is a torture doctor?
A time of impunity
Judging the Nazi doctors
A global map of torture doctors
The paradox of the United Kingdom
Humanists and healers
Humanists for human rights
Healers for human rights
Medical associations : condemn and abide
The dawn of accountability
Innovations
Globalization
Impunity and the United States' war on terror
Promoting accountability
Appendix. Behavioral examples of torture doctoring as the misuse of medical
Knowledge/skills or the authorities or duties conferred by a medical license.