Soviet psychiatric abuse in the Gorbachev era / Robert van Voren (ed.) ; with contributions by Sidney Bloch ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Voren, Robert van.

Bloch, Sidney.

Sakharov Library Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics, Medical.

Psychiatrists--Professional ethics.

Psychiatrists.

Political participation.

Political prisoners--Abuse of.

Psychiatry--Political aspects.

Psychiatry.

USSR.

Forensic Psychiatry.

Human Rights.

Psychiatry--Political aspects--Soviet Union.

Political prisoners--Abuse of--Soviet Union.

Political prisoners.

Psychiatrists--Political activity--Soviet Union.

Psychiatrists--Professional ethics--Soviet Union.

Soviet Union.

Medical Subjects:

Ethics, Medical.

USSR.

Forensic Psychiatry.

Human Rights.

Penn Provenance:

Yankelevich, Tatiana (donor)

Sakharov, Andreĭ, 1921-1989 (former owner)

Physical Description:

112 pages

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, the Netherlands : International Association on the Political Use of Psychiatry, 1989.

Contents:

The history of political psychiatry in the USSR / by Robert van Voren

From Bukovsky to Koryagin / by Robert van Voren

The World Psychiatric Association and Soviet psychiatry / by Christine Shaw

Soviet psychiatry and snezhnevskyism / by Sidney Bloch

Soviet psychiatry criticized in the Soviet press / by Robert van Voren

Soviet psychiatry and the WPA after Vienna, 1983-1989 / by Peter B. Reddaway

A green light for injustice / by Anatoly I. Koryagin

Soviet psychiatric abuse during Gorbachev / by Alexander P. Podrabinek

Statute on the conditions and procedures governing the provision of psychiatric assistance (USSR, 1988).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Tatiana Yankelevich in honor of Dr. Andreĭ Sakharov.

ISBN:

9072657012

9789072657015

OCLC:

26220093