Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thai Ngoc An, a physician and ex-political representative from Vinh Cong Province, said that he was fed animal feed and made to work in the fields during his three-year prison stay. Following his release government officials told him his detention had been a "misinterpretation of orders...
...believe that juries will be less reluctant to view the death penalty as "cruel and unusual punishment" if it is carried out by injection. But the lethal substance, probably a fast-acting barbiturate mixed with a paralyzing chemical agent, would have to be administered at least indirectly by a physician. And that, charge a Boston doctor and a lawyer, would constitute a cruel and unusual breach of medical ethics...
...Baraj Benacerraf, Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology, will assume administrative responsibility for the Institute previously handled by Dr. Emil Frei III, professor of Medicine and director of the institute. Frei will continue to serve as director and physician-in-chief...
...artist, Filartiga wishes to expose his nation's pain, force outsiders to examine Paraguayan wounds and ultimately to heal them. As a doctor, Filartiga's artistic vision finds literal expression. But in his son's case, his physician status could not save the battered body that he found four hours after the child was kidnapped by the police...
Stroessner's regime has its reasons for singling out Filartiga as a politically dangerous figure. As the sole physician to almost 40,000 peasants in the poorest country of the continent, Filartiga had attained the unofficial status of folk hero and rural leader. If anyone can mobilize revolt, he is in the most strategic position to do so. Though Filartiga does not aspire to organize politically subversive activity, his art publicizes the repercussions of Stroessner's reign on an international scale which seriously threatens the dictatorship's security...