Abstract
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR UK) is an independent group of doctors and health professionals launched two years ago by Drs Ian Munroe, former editor of the Lancet and Peter Kandela, a Middlesex GP. The group's aim is to direct the influence of the medical profession towards the defence of human rights, most immediately by bringing the skills of the medical profession to the aid of victims of human rights abuses (Hall, 1991).
Highlights
For the individual practitioner, such an admirable objective may seem a tall order, but if doctors in a professional group work together to achieve a com cmhoanngge.oaAl,t tPheHyR'csansebceonad vaenrnyuaplowmeerfeutilnglo, bhbeyldfoinr
Lawyer and human rights activist, Dr FrançoiseHampson, who looked at what doctors could be doing, singled out the Royal College of Psychiatrists for special praise over the effectiveness of its efforts to focus attention on the widespread abuse of psychiatry in the pre-glasnost
Hampson emphasised the need for professional solidarity between doctors in different cboeulinetvreieds.therFeowr asthsecopiendfoivrid'mueadl icaplradcettieticotniveer,' wosrhke if doctors could use their forensic and diagnostic skills in making objective assessments of victims of alleged torture and in offering survivors psychosocial and physical treatment
Summary
For the individual practitioner, such an admirable objective may seem a tall order, but if doctors in a professional group work together to achieve a com cmhoanngge.oaAl,t tPheHyR'csansebceonad vaenrnyuaplowmeerfeutilnglo, bhbeyldfoinr. London in October 1991, speakers addressed differ ent issues in the interplay of medicine and human rights.
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