The Medical Profession and Human Rights

edited by British Medical Association RRP $46.95  - Our Price $42.25

The BMA decided to take a thorough new look at the complex interface between medical practitioners and possible abuses of human rights, and its report takes its examples from all over the world. It ranges across a great variety of issues, including abuse of institutionalised patients, research involving humans, trade in human organs, doctors and asylum seekers, prison doctors, forensic doctors, the rehabilitation of torture victims, and medical involvement in armed conflicts and weapons research. The constant concern is with the practical ethical issues such situations pose for medical personnel and guidance as to how they might deal with them.

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War or Health? - A Reader

edited by Illka Taiplae et al  RRP $39.95  - Our Price $35.95

This reader has been put together by Physicians for Social Responsibility in Finland, and comprises 70 articles, specially commissioned for this volume and written by leading authorities in their field. Providing an unusually wide-ranging examination of the interface between warfare and human health and society, topics include: the direct and indirect consequences of war for demographic trends, famine, chronic disease, psychological disorders, human rights violations and the environment - as well as the impact on specific population groups like women, children, old people, those mentally ill. Also explored are the medical and health aspects of different kinds of weapons, and the changing roles of health professionals in war.

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