Medicine in handcuffs
Subtitle: restraining prisoners and detainees undergoing medical treatment and hospitalisation
By: writing, Noam Lubell, Ruchama Marton ; research and testimonies, Michal Bar-Or ... [et al.] ; translation, Yardena Tzintzolker, Shaul Vardi.
Contributors: Marton, Ruchama, 1937-; Bar-Or, Michal.; Tzintzolker, Yardena.; Vardi, Shaul.; Rofʾim li-zekhuyot adam (Israel)
Publisher: Physicians for Human Rights-Israel
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Tel-Aviv
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Medical ethics -- Israel.; Prisoners -- Medical care -- Israel.; Restraint of prisoners -- Israel.; Human rights -- Israel.
Description: This report examines the issue of restraining prisoners undergoing medical treatment from several angles: Cases illustrating the situation regarding shackling since Physicians for Human Rights-Israel's establishment; the issues and ramification raised by this phenomenon, both in terms of human rights and medical ethics, as well as from the governmental point of view, and the PHR-Israel point of view.
Notes: "June 2003."