The torture doctors : human rights crimes & the road to justice / Steven H. Miles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miles, Steven H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Torture--Moral and ethical aspects.

Torture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Georgetown University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Steven H. Miles reveals a horrifying, global, yet hidden medical specialty: the torture doctor. Physicians are essential to the modern practice of torture. Their countries employ them to invent techniques to break people down without leaving scars. They falsify death certificates to say that a murdered prisoner died of natural causes, They monitor prisoners being tortured to keep them alive for the next day of pain. Torture doctors work for dictatorships and even democracies such as the United States, United Kingdom, and Spain. Doctors torture with impunity in most cases. With rare exceptions, governments protect them and medical associations and licensing boards leave them alone. This book examines who they are, what they do, and how they escape accountability. It also traces the beginnings of a movement to bring them to justice and recommends ways that the international human rights community can hold these perpetrators accountable. Finally, it shows how physicians can be brought back to their proper role of promoting health and human rights. This is a shocking and little known story that must be revealed.

Contents:

Meet the torture doctors

Dr. Chand sees a burned boy

Who are the torture doctors?

What is torture?

What is a torture doctor?

A time of impunity

Judging the Nazi doctors

A global map of torture doctors

The paradox of the United Kingdom

Humanists and healers

Humanists for human rights

Healers for human rights

Medical associations : condemn and abide

The dawn of accountability

Innovations

Globalization

Impunity and the United States' war on terror

Promoting accountability

Appendix. Behavioral examples of torture doctoring as the misuse of medical

Knowledge/skills or the authorities or duties conferred by a medical license.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781626167520

1626167524

OCLC:

1104912689