Global health alert: Torture: an ethical dilemma for the medical profession?
Date: Tuesday 29 April 2014
Location: Royal Society Of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, LONDON, W1G 0AE
The next Global Health Alert will focus on on torture and the ethical dilemmas faced by medical professionals working in prisons or detention settings.
With torture becoming all too widespread and coming into touch with parts of the prison system, who will protect doctors who blow the whistle on unacceptable practices? When is feeding a hunger striker unethical? And how should clinicians in other healthcare settings respond when encountering suspected victims of abuse and torture?
All these questions and more will be discussed – from a global and local perspective – by our acclaimed panel of experts including Jim Welsh, Amnesty International, Dr Frank Arnold, Medact and Hadas-Ziv, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel.
The lecture will be chaired by Dr Richard Horton, Editor of The Lancet.
The Q&A session at the end of the talk will be followed by a free drinks reception, to which everyone is welcome to attend. Book your place today to attend this event!
