The breaking of bodies and minds : torture, psychiatric abuse, and the health professions / edited by Eric Stover and Elena O. Nightingale.
- Date:
- [1985], ©1985
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New York : W. H. Freeman, [1985], ©1985.
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xv, 319 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contributors
Notes
Includes index
Bibliographic information
Bibliography: p. 299-309
Contents
Foreword / David A. Hamburg -- Introduction: the breaking of bodies and minds / Eric Stover & Elena O. Nightingale -- Torture and the ethics of medicine / Albert R. Jonsen & Leonard A. Sagan -- Victims of torture: two testimonies / Cornelis A. Kolff & Roscius N. Doan -- Physical and psychiatric effects of torture: two medical studies / Federico Allodi & Glenn R. Randall -- Torture on trial: the case of Joelito Filártiga and the clinic of hope / Richard Pierre Claude -- Medical action against torture / Eric Stover & Michael Nelson -- Psychiatrists and dissenters in the Soviet Union / Sidney Bloch & Peter Reddaway -- A question of conscience: the cases of Alexei Nikitin and Anatoly Koryagin / Kevin Klose -- Unwilling patients / Anatoly Koryagin -- The case of General Grigorenko: a second opinion / Walter Reich -- The world of Soviet psychiatry / Walter Reich -- A response to psychiatric abuse / Paul Chodoff & Ellen Mercer -- Toward the prevention of torture and psychiatric abuse / Elena O. Nightingale & Eric Stover -- Codes of ethics and declarations on abuse -- Selected organizations concerned with torture and/or psychiatric abuse / Hazel Sirett.
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- 0716717328
- 0716717336