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

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 murde...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miles, Steven H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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