The Torture Doctors : Human Rights Crimes and the Road to Justice /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Miles, Steven H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Human rights.
Political prisoners > Medical care > Moral and ethical aspects.
Physicians > Professional ethics.
Torture > Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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