Medical journals and human rights

Abstract

Peter Kandela is a general practitioner and medical writer. In 1978, be became a founder member of the British Medical Group of Amnesty international and in 1989 he co-founded Physicians for Human Rights (UK). Since then. he has taken part in various fact-finding missions for both organisations, and is currently an adviser to a number of human rights groups For nearly two decades he has been contributing features on medical and human rights issues to The Lancet and other medical journals: and he is an editorial adviser for the Harvard journal Health and Human Rights.