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Author Stover, Eric.

Title The Breaking of bodies and minds : torture, psychiatric abuse, and the health professions / edited by Eric Stover and Elena O. Nightingale
Published New York : W.H.Freeman, 1985

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Description xvi, 319 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 299-309
Subject Civil rights.
Human rights.
Medical ethics.
Political prisoners -- Health and hygiene.
Psychiatric ethics.
Psychiatry -- Soviet Union.
Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Torture.
Ethics, Medical.
Human Rights.
Psychiatry.
Torture.
SUBJECT USSR. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014586
Author Nightingale, Elena O.
Stover, Eric.
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
LC no. 85004512
ISBN 0716717328
0716717336 (paperback)