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The Breaking of bodies and minds : [electronic resource] torture, psychiatric abuse, and the health professions / edited by Eric Stover and Elena O. Nightingale.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Freeman, c1985.Description: xv, 319 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0716717328
  • 9780716717324
  • 0716717336 (pbk.)
  • 9780716717331 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174/.2 19
LOC classification:
  • RA1122.8 .B73 1985
NLM classification:
  • WM 62
Other classification:
  • 44.02
Online resources:
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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Bibliography: p. 299-309.

Includes index.

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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