The psychiatrist's dilemma: A conflict of roles in legal executions

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 629-635

  Freedman, Alfred M ^a   Halpern, Abraham L ^b  

^a New York Medical College ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forensic psychiatrists; Legal executions; Moratorium on executions; Nazi doctors; Psychiatrists

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ABUSE; CONFLICT; COURT; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; CRIMINAL LAW; FATALITY; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; GERMANY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; PSYCHIATRIST; PUNISHMENT; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; USSR;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; WAR AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES;

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; ETHICS, PROFESSIONAL; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS;

EID: 0032883499     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1614.1999.00625.x     Document Type: Review

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