The health professional as human rights promoter: Ten years of physicians for human rights (USA)

Health and Human Rights

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 111-127

  Hannibal, Kari ^b   Lawrence, Robert S ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b PHR   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFLICT; EDUCATION; GROUP PROCESS; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS; POLITICS; PRISONER; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; TORTURE; UNITED STATES; WAR; WAR AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES;

PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS; WAR AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES;

DISSENT AND DISPUTES; EDUCATION; GROUP PROCESSES; HEALTH; HOMICIDE; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNATIONALITY; PHYSICIANS; POLITICS; PRISONERS; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; SOCIETIES; TORTURE; UNITED STATES; WAR;

EID: 0030308257     PISSN: 10790969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4065238     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. H.J. Geiger and R.M. Cook-Deegan, "The role of physicians in conflicts and humanitarian crises: Case studies from the field missions of Physicians for Human Rights, 1988-1993, "JAMA 270 (1993):616-620.
2. H.J. Geiger and R.M. Cook-Deegan, see note 1.
3. 3."International Campaign to Ban Landmines," brochure (Boston: PHR,1995).
4. To date, 22 countries have called for a comprehensive ban on mines (the U.S. has not) and 43 countries have issued moratoria or other restrictions on the export of landmines. Belgium and Norway have enacted a total ban while France has banned production and trade of landmines.
5. The authors thank Virginia Sherry, Human Rights Watch/Middle East, for her insights on these issues.
6. For more information on this doctor, Wendy Orr, MD, see M. Rayner, Turning a Blind Eye: Medical Accountability and the Prevention of Torture in South Africa (Washington DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1987).
7. Conversation with Robert Cook-Deegan, MD, January 1996.
8. EDITOR'S NOTE: See J. Brenner, this volume, for survey of human rights education in public health graduate schools.
9. See Preamble, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted and proclaimed by UN General Assembly Resolution 217A (December 10, 1948).