The Torture Doctors: Human Rights Crimes and the Road to Justice

Awards:   Runner-up for Independent Publisher Book Awards 6 (United States) Runner-up for Independent Publisher Book Awards. Short-listed for The Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America 6 (United States) Short-listed for The Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America.
Author:   Steven H. Miles
Publisher:   Georgetown University Press
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9781626167520


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   02 March 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Hardback
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  • Runner-up for Independent Publisher Book Awards 6 (United States)
  • Runner-up for Independent Publisher Book Awards.
  • Short-listed for The Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America 6 (United States)
  • Short-listed for The Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America.

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Author:   Steven H. Miles
Publisher:   Georgetown University Press
Imprint:   Georgetown University Press
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9781626167520


ISBN 10:   1626167524
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   02 March 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Miles examines the torture doctor as 'healer and beast,' revealing how the two parts 'make a distinctive whole.' His data-driven narrative of descent into medical hell is a journey of the soul we can dare with Miles as our unfrightened guide-engaging us to challenge torture doctors in our own regimes. -- Jean Maria Arrigo, 2015 AAAS Award Winner for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility A brutal exposure of medicine's global torture maze by a master researcher. -- George Annas, Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health Miles examines the Torture Doctor as 'healer and beast,' revealing how the two parts 'make a distinctive whole.' His data-driven narrative of descent into Medical Hell is a journey of the soul we can dare with Miles as our unfrightened guide - engaging us to challenge Torture Doctors in our own regimes -- Jean Maria Arrigo, PhD, 2015 AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility A brutal exposure of medicine's global torture maze by a master researcher. -- George Annas, Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health


Miles examines the torture doctor as 'healer and beast,' revealing how the two parts 'make a distinctive whole.' His data-driven narrative of descent into medical hell is a journey of the soul we can dare with Miles as our unfrightened guide-engaging us to challenge torture doctors in our own regimes. -- Jean Maria Arrigo, 2015 AAAS Award Winner for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility A brutal exposure of medicine's global torture maze by a master researcher. -- George Annas, Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health


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Steven H. Miles, MD, is a professor emeritus of medicine and bioethics at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He previously managed the Doctors Who Torture Accountability Project and is a past president of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, from which he received the Distinguished Service Award and Lifetime Achievement Award. His books include Oath Betrayed: America’s Torture Doctors and The Hippocratic Oath and the Ethics of Medicine.

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