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BMJ 2003;326:1405 More than 30 years ago I asked my surgical instructor about petechial lesions on the scrotums of some criminals interned in the surgical ward. The shocking answer was, “Oh, yes, the police make them all go through ‘the machine’ before taking them to the hospital.” The machine, the “picana el?ctrica,” was a deviceContinue reading “Argentina: torture, silence and medical teaching”

Briefing on the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill 2003 Allyson Pollock and David Price Public Health Policy Unit, University College London Published in association with The Society for Social Medicine and the NHS Consultations Association A Catalyst Briefing Paper. Published: July 2003 “The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards)Continue reading “In Place of Bevan? Foundation hospitals bill”

D Banerji, New Delhi Using Scientific Critiques as an Instrument to Resist Foreign Domination CONSTRAINTS IN DEVELOPING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY The composition of the WHO sponsored the Macroeconomic Commission on Health (MCH) and the sheer range of their terms of reference had tempted me to undertake the rather forbidding task of writing a critique onContinue reading “Using Scientific Critiques as an Instrument to Resist Foreign Domination”

Paper presented at European Network for the Defense of Public Health of the European Social Forum Anti-Summit Conference on Globalisation, Thessaloniki, 18 June 2003. Since the 1970s, advanced medical care throughout the world has been dragged through a painful but apparently necessary and inevitable metamorphosis. This can be summed up as transformation of medicine toContinue reading “Health Care or Health Trade? A historic moment of choice, by J.T. Hart”