Physician complicity in misrepresentation and omission of evidence of torture in postdetention medical examinations in Turkey

JAMA

Volumn 276, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 396-402

  Iacopino, Vincent ^a,e   Heisler, Michele ^c   Pishevar, Shervin ^d   Kirschner, Robert H ^b  

^a W Reg Off Phys for Hum Rights   (United States)

^b Physicians for Human Rights   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Physicians for Human Rights   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DETENTION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL RECORD; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORTURE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

EID: 0030055024     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.276.5.396     Document Type: Article

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