Guantanamo: A call for action

British Medical Journal

Volumn 332, Issue 7541, 2006, Pages 560-561

  Wilks, Michael ^a,b  

^a Medical Ethics Committee   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; HUNGER; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL HEALTH; PATIENT RIGHT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORTURE; TORTURE SURVIVOR; CUBA; ENTERIC FEEDING; ETHICS; LEGAL ASPECT; PRISONER; UNITED STATES; WAR AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES; WORLD MEDICAL ASSOCIATION;

WAR AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES; WORLD MEDICAL ASSOCIATION;

CUBA; ENTERAL NUTRITION; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMAN RIGHTS; PRISONERS; TORTURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644937661     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.332.7541.560     Document Type: Editorial

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