Medical care of prisoners and detainees.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Conference Name:

Symposium on Medical Care and Protection of Prisoners and Detainees (1972 : London, England)

Symposium on Medical Care and Protection of Prisoners and Detainees

Series:

Ciba Foundation symposium ; new ser. 16.

Ciba Foundation symposium ; 16 (new ser.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners--Medical care--Congresses.

Prisoners.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1973.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.

Contents:

Medical Care of Prisoners and Detainees; Contents; Chairman's introduction : ethics, the doctor, and the prisoner; Medical services in prison: lessons from two surveys; Discussion; Minimum standards for medical services in prisons and jails; Discussion; Standards of medical care and protection in detention camps; Discussion; Problems arising from biological experimentation in prisons; Discussion; Penitentiary medicine in France; Organization of medical care of prisoners and detainees in Poland; Discussion; The Canadian experience; Discussion

Medical psychiatric survey in Alabama State Prison [submitted in title only]Discussion; The English Prison Medical Service: its historical background and more recent developments; Discussion; Violence in prisoners and patients; Discussion; The interaction between prisoners, victims and their social networks; Discussion; Management of conflict in correctional institutions; Discussion; Chairman's closing remarks; Appendix 1 Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (United Nations); Appendix 2 Association of State Correctional Administrators. Policy guidelines: health services

Appendix 3 Administrative regulations : State of Illinois Department of Corrections, Adult Division, Sections 836, 837, 817Appendix 4 ACA Manual of Correctional Standards Health and Medical Service Corrections Evaluation Report; Appendix 5 Extract from The Emerging Rights of the Confined; Index of Contributors; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613693624

9781280783234

1280783230

9780470719992

0470719990

9780470717660

0470717661

OCLC:

797918281