Prison doctors beware!.

Doctors in prison: documenting torture in detention.

Introduction The documentation of torture inside a prison raises a certain number of issues specific to the fact that those people interviewed are still in custody. Quite obviously, there will be pitfalls to avoid, and safeguards to ensure, that will not be present when documenting torture within the relative safety and calm of a centre for torture survivors. In a prison, the prisoners who have...

Prison doctors: ethics, invisibility, and quality.

Smith addresses three areas of concern in his evaluation of prison health care in Britain: the ethical dilemmas faced by prison doctors, the isolation of these practitioners from the medical mainstream, and the quality of care rendered to prisoners. He concludes that prison doctors, who are employees of the Home Office rather than the National Health Service, are handicapped by the organizati...

Irish prison doctors--men in the middle, 1865-90.

IN 1839, Dr. Henry Maunsell addressed the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland on what he termed "political medicine". He chided "the leading medical men of the day [for] having abandoned the higher and more honourable walks of their professions to pursue, exclusively, the less exacted, though more profitable trade of the empirical curing of disease".1 If governmental attempts to provide clean ...

Doctors with multi-state practices beware: new DEA regulation could affect you.

Two Turkish doctors who went to aid of protesters are sentenced to prison.

Two doctors who gave first aid to people injured during the Gezi Park demonstrations in Istanbul in 2013 have been given a 10 month prison sentence by a Turkish court. The convictions of Yasemin Erenç and Sercan Yüksel for “denigrating a mosque” while delivering healthcare services have been condemned by human rights organisations and the World Medical Association. The doctors are currently not...