The medical profession and torture.

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...

Greed and the medical profession.

O rganised medicine is not giving proper attention to the disturbing presence in the profession of a universal human trait: greed. Perhaps doctors' greed is less of a problem in Britain where an estimated 70% of the doctors are generalists, and reimbursement in the main is controlled by the national health system. Not so in the United States where 70% of doctors are specialists and an open heal...

Homoeopathy and the medical profession

PHILLIP A. NICHOLLS, Homoeopathy and the medical profession, Beckenham, Croom Helm, 1988, 8vo, pp. 298, £27.50. There are several useful historical accounts of homoeopathy in America, but very little has been published on the British story. Nicholls's book will thus become a stock item for courses on medicine in nineteenthand twentieth-century Britain. After discussing the relation between the ...

Evidence, the law and the medical profession.

Violence against the medical profession