Description: 'This report encompasses not only the medical involvement of doctors in torture, as both perpetrators and victims, but discusses their role in corporal punishment, the death penalth, abuse of psychiatry, hunger strikes, withholding of treatment and forcible examination of prisoners... The message in Medicine Betrayed is of significance to every doctor in every country.' - Amnesty International British Section'This report reveals how doctors may become involved in violations of human rights, including torture. Its ethical guidelines and recommendations will encourage doctors to refuse any part in a procedure which is cruel and harmful.' - New Zealand Doctor'Medicine Betrayed is an excellently prepared book. It covers a delicate analysis of a topic which contradicts the core of the medical profession and which is shameful for the persons invloved, namely, the physicians who are indifferent to and even contribute to torture.' - Torture'This book provides the reader with practical solutions and does not limit itself to description and analysis. I would strongly recommend that it be read by all medical students.' - Bulletin of Medical Ethics'This is an important, well-written book dealing with a fundamental aspect of worldwide medical ethics. It deserves a large audience.' - South African Medical Journal'This book will shake some from complacency and spur others to more of that eternal vigilance which is the price of freedom.' - Journal of the Christian Medical Fellowship'Medicine Betrayed is the most authoritative and informative resource available of the responsibilities of physicians in the protection of human rights. Its thoughtful, ethical commentary surpasses everything else in the literature. Practical guidance is provided throughout for the practitioner and medical policy maker alike. The Working Party which prepared this document took great pains to meet controversy and dilemmas head on. Some recommendations are provocative, but this too is in their favour as the standards suggested will, where not uniformly accepted, stimulate necessary debate. It is to the immense credit of the British Medical Association that this volume has been produced. All physicians and all victims of abuse will be the beneficiaries' Jonathan E Fine, Founder and Former Director of Physicians for Human Rights, USA'This valuable report reveals how doctors may become involved in violations of human rights, including torture. Its ethical guidelines and recommendations will encourage doctors throughout the world to refuse to participate in any procedure which is cruel or harmful to prisoners, and help them to make protests about such violations even incourtries where torture and physical punishment are a accepted part of government policy.' - Sir Anthony Storr'I have read the very well produced new BMA report on medical participation in torture with horror and dismay. The report is sensible, detailed and indicates a way forward. What needs to be declared lud and clear is that medical participation in torture or in the administration of any physical punishment is unethical.' - Lord Scarman'The merit of this report is that it provides unequivocal evidence of the nature and extent of this abuse an in doing so provides all of us who are moved todo what we can to eliminate it with powerful arguments and implacable facts' - Dr Anthony Clare

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