The Medical Documentation of Torture
Contributors: Michael Peel (Editor)
Publisher: Greenwich Medical Media
Published: March 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781841100685
Subjects: Human rights; Medicine; General; Medical; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Forensic Medicine; Forensic Science; Medical / General
First sentence: Despite decades of intensive action by national and international human rights organisations, by the United Nations and other intergovernmental bodies, and numerous exposes by the printed and electronic media, torture persists as we start the 21st century.