Book Review: Law for the Medical Profession.

Evidence, the law and the medical profession.

BOOK REVIEW The Foundations of Physical Law

Many physicists enter the profession because, often as children, they felt a burning curiosity about the world. They wanted to know why material objects behave as they do, what they are made of, and where everything came from. So they were drawn inexorably towards physics, the most basic science, as the the best place to seek answers. They will have found, however, that the answers only go just...

Book Review: Money in the Law

Book Review: Law in the Making

Torture and the medical profession: a review.

Current knowledge about doctor participation in torture was reviewed at the symposium Torture and the Medical Profession. This particular topic has received increasing attention during the last few years, and the meeting may be seen as one in a series, following particularly Doctors, Ethics, and Torture in Copenhagen, 1986 and Physicians, Ethics, and Torture in Montevideo 1987 (1,2). The backgr...