The torture doctors : human rights crimes & the road to justice / Steven H. Miles, MD.
The torture doctors : human rights crimes & the road to justice / Steven H. Miles, MD.
The torture doctors : human rights crimes & the road to justice / Steven H. Miles, MD.
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Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2020]
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G 2020/5292
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English
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xiv, 207 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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...
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Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2020]
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District of Columbia
Date Published
[2020]
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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...
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The torture doctors : human rights crimes & the road to justice / Steven H. Miles, MD.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-200) and index.
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©2020
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G 2020/5292
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74VKaOmjAp8b
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1626167524
9781626167520
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179.7
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991024376014902626
