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Some of those questions are of a scientific nature. What are the long-range physical and psychological consequences of torture and of psychiatric abuse?
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The three discussants, Drs. Helen Ranney, Albert Soinit, and Alfred Haynes, have all served as members of our Committee on Human Rights.
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Other groups, such as the Chilean Commission on Human Rights and the National Commission Against Torture, which was formed at the end of 1982, also assist in documenting torture and repression. Physicians are actively involved in these groups, and many have been the object of government reprisals.
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The importance of the work to expose participation of physicians in torture is not a matter of the number of cases that can be verified. The importance is the establishment of proof that physicians, in direct contradiction of the most fundamental precept of medical ethics, participate in such monstrous activity.
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Because this procedure has been accepted by the courts without any apparent objection, the governing board of the Medical Association of Chile met with the chief justice of the supreme court to discuss its concern regarding this practice. The human rights activities of the Medical Association of Chile include support for physicians who are victims of repression; presentation of a declaration to the World Medical Association in Venice, together with the Argentine Medical Confederation, supporting respect for human rights of physicians and condemning the participation of physicians in torture; dissemination of information about torture through the association's information channels and, when it is possible, through the press; and promotion of ethics, awareness, and behavior.
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Gonzalez, whose activities, together with those of his colleagues in Chile, assure the world that protection of human rights still constitutes a Chilean ideal. The comments that ~ am going to make today were prepared by me in association with Dr.
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Those offenses may include treating victuns of torture, documenting or reporting the incidence of alleged torture, and showing the authorities and private organizations, such as human rights groups, the evidence concerning torture.
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The Institute of Medicine recently decided to establish another human rights program in order to facilitate the expansion of human rights activities here on Constitution Avenue. The Institute of Medicine will have a somewhat broader mission, including efforts to bring about basic institutional changes for the protection of individuals from torture and mistreatment.
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In terms of misuse and abuse of psychiatric knowledge and authority, there are a number of crucial value preferences in protecting human rights and assuring psychiatric competency. First, the best interest of the patient is a value preference that requires that the clinician do no harm.
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psychiatric hospitals. Mechanical restraints " .
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The first, "Japan's Search for International Evelyn R Saks, "The Use of Mechanical Restraints in Psychiatric Hospitals,n 17`c Yale Law Journal, Vol.
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676-677. ii"The Management of Mental Illness: Forgotten Millions," Lancet, March.
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Health professionals are, by the very nature of their profession, likely to have a broader role in the arena of human rights than most other professionals. Recognition of this broader role has been a matter of careful consideration by the Institute of Medicine.
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Douglas Sanmelson, American Statistical Association, Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights As you know, in many cases, such as detainment of a scientist, it is possible for scientific societies in the West to argue forcefully in that scientist's behalf with the government responsible for the action. To raise similar arguments for the end of torture or for changing the medical ethics practiced within a government is much more difficult.
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Gonzalez if other groups are protesting the abuse of human rights by the current government there outside of the medical group that has done such an admirable job In Chile. Juan [nis Gonzalez Not only the Chilean medical association has been protesting against abuses and defending human rights.
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36 kind to make sure that obtaining consent ~ legitimately delegated to an appropriate person and is provided for painful or experimental treatments. ~ believe we have entered into an era when we can begin to approx~nate a healthy answer to that question.
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37 M Aided Haynes ~ am reasonably certain that this will be done.
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