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(A New York Review Collection.) By David J. Rothman and Sheila M. Rothman. 213 pp. New York, New York Review of Books, 2006. $24.95. ISBN 978-1-59017-140-0.

Recent revelations about the complicity of doctors and other health professionals in the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay remind us of the vital role that medical personnel can play as guardians of human rights. Some physicians may consider this role to be outside the realm of the familiar, quotidian obligations to their patients, but for David and Sheila Rothman — social historians of medicine — it is an inherent part of medical professionalism. The Rothmans' view is informed as much by personal experience as by academic reflection. For the better part of two decades, the New . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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