Requirements for Perspectives essays and blog posts

Perspectives essays Health and Human Rights accepts submissions for consideration in our Perspectives section. Please refer to the following requirements in preparing a Perspectives essay. The maximum word length is 2000 words. The essay must be well-written, in clear and idiomatically correct English. The argument put forward must be clearly articulated, with an obvious connection to the right to health. The essay must have relevance to a wide international audience…

The new accountability for doctors who torture

Steven H. Miles Published January 22, 2014 Physicians are integral to the modern infliction of torture. They help regimes devise and implement means of torture that minimize scars that serve as evidence. They help keep prisoners alive who are not supposed to die by calibrating the severity of torture to their medical conditions and treating injuries caused by torture before their patients are returned to torture centers. They falsify medical…