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Political Violence and the Health Professional

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

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Andre Koppers is a historian, now working as a research assistant attached to the International Association on the Political Use of Psychiatry. His A Biographical Dictionary on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the USSR is published by the IAPUP, Amsterdam (£5, 180 pp., 1990) Lone Jacobsen is head nurse and Peter Vesti a psychiatrist at the Danish Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims. Torture Survivors–A New Group of Patients is published by the Danish Nurses1 Organization, Amsterdam (£12, 80 pp., 1990, in an English translation by Bente Bach) and is intended primarily for nurses. Finally, Eric Stover, a staff officer with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Elena Nightingale, lecturer in health policy at Harvard and chair of the AAAS Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, edited The Breaking of Bodies and Minds, published by W. H. Freeman, New York (£16.95 (pb), 335 pp., 1985).

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Copyright © 1991 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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