Medicine betrayed : the participation of doctors in human rights abuses /

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Imprint:London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books, c1992.
Description:xvii, 234 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1394261
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Other authors / contributors:British Medical Association.
ISBN:185649103X
1856491048 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [223-227] and index.

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505 0 0 |t Foreword /  |r Lord Avebury --  |g 1.  |t Introduction --  |g 2.  |t Ethical standards and international law.  |t BMA policy.  |t International ethical standards.  |t International humanitarian law.  |t International human rights instruments/law --  |g 3.  |t Assessing the evidence.  |t Torture: the scale of the problem.  |t Medical involvement in torture.  |t Abuse of psychiatry.  |t Corporal and capital punishments --  |g 4.  |t Medical involvement in torture.  |t Why do doctors get involved?  |t How do doctors get involved?  |t Assessing the evidence.  |t Examination prior to torture.  |t During torture.  |t After torture.  |t Pressure to assist in human rights violations.  |t Which doctors torture?  |t Investigating medical involvement --  |g 5.  |t Abuse of psychiatry.  |t Evidence of psychiatric abuse.  |t Changes in Soviet law.  |t Visits of foreign experts, 1989-1991.  |t The rehabilitation process.  |t Other recent reports of psychiatric abuse.  |t Romania.  |t Cuba.  |t Germany.  |t Systematic failures in psychiatric practice.  |t Greece.  |t Japan.  |t United Kingdom --  |g 6.  |t Judicial penalties: corporal and capital punishment.  |t Corporal punishment.  |t National and international laws diverge.  |t Cultural values and medical involvement.  |t Cultural and religious values and corporal punishments.  |t Capital punishment.  |t Medical participation in capital punishment.  |t Contributing to the investigation phase.  |t Giving evidence in a capital trial.  |t Examining and certifying fitness.  |t Providing medical care to the prisoner.  |t Advising on, supervising or overseeing the punishment.  |t Certifying death --  |g 7.  |t Hunger strikes and other human rights issues involving prisoners.  |t Hunger strikes and forcible feeding.  |t The UK: evolution of policy.  |t Experiences outside the UK.  |t Forcible medication for non-medical reasons.  |t Withholding medical care.  |t Forcible examination of prisoners.  |t Forcible taking of blood or tissue samples.  |t Asylum seekers.  |t Other abuses in which doctors can participate.  |t Virginity testing.  |t Forcible sterilization.  |t Culturally-determined surgical procedures.  |t Experimentation on prisoners.  |t Trade in human organs --  |g 8.  |t Doctors as victims of repression.  |t How doctors come to be targeted.  |t Prosecution of opponents of psychiatric abuse: USSR.  |t Arrests in Syria.  |t Civil unrest: El Salvador.  |t Attack on human rights organization: Chile.  |t Arrest of health workers during mass demonstrations: China.  |t Criticism of government health policy: Vietnam.  |t Sudden change in government by coup: Sudan.  |t Humanitarian actions: Turkey.  |t Invasion: Kuwait.  |t Ethnic conflict: Yugoslavia.  |t Killings by opposition movements.  |t The need for international protection --  |g 9.  |t The response of the medical profession.  |t Resistance to medical involvement.  |t Medical associations: the track record.  |t BMA activities.  |t The World Health Organization.  |t International Associations.  |t The role of other non-governmental organizations.  |t Proposal for an international tribunal.  |t The impossible dilemma--hero or victim --  |g 10.  |t Monitoring the threat.  |t Declared respect for international standards.  |t The judiciary.  |t Police stations.  |t Prison practice.  |t Medical practice in prisons.  |t Mental health facilities.  |t Conclusion --  |g 11.  |t Conclusions and recommendations.  |t Recommendations.  |t Involvement of doctors in torture.  |t Provision of medical care to prisoners and torture victims.  |t Treatment of hunger strikers.  |t Doctors working in the armed forces.  |t Support for doctors entering the prison service and armed forces.  |t Strengthening medical ethics.  |t Action by national medical associations.  |t Doctors and the death penalty.  |t Whipping and amputations.  |t The role of forensic medicine.  |t Protection of health professionals.  |t Care for victims of human rights violations.  |t Other issues.  |t Further action.  |t App. 1. BMA activities on human rights issues --  |t App. 2. Resolutions passed at BMA Annual Representative Meetings --  |t App. 3. WMA: Declaration of Tokyo --  |t App. 4. WMA: Resolution on physician participation in capital punishment --  |t App. 5. WMA: Declaration in hunger-strikers --  |t App. 6. WPA: Declaration of Hawaii --  |t App. 7. WPA: Declaration on psychiatrists and the death penalty --  |t App. 8. UN Principles of Medical Ethics --  |t App. 9. 12 point program of Amnesty International --  |t App. 10. UK ratification of international conventions. 
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