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AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program
Truth and Reconciliation: Examining Human Rights Violations in South Africa's Health Care Sector
Hearing Transcript
View the transcript from the Truth & Reconciliation Comission hearings on health care sector violations of human rights.
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Human Rights and Health: The Legacy of Apartheid
Printed in 1998 at the request of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee,
this report shows how, during the apartheid period, the leadership of
the health sector in South Africa subordinated ethical and human rights
obligations to the racist practices and political repression of the state.
Apartheid Medicine: Health and Human Rights in South
Africa
Prepared in 1989 by a AAAS medical mission of inquiry, this book
examines how legal structures and the culture of apartheid denied
the majority of South Africans decent health care and contributed to human
rights violations in the health care sector.
Preliminary Submission to the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission Concerning the Role of Health Professionals in Gross Violations of
Human Rights
In June 1997, a team composed of AAAS and other co-sponsoring societies
made this submission to the TRC hearings on health sector human rights
violations.
- AAAS
- Physicians for Human Rights
- Committee for Health in South Africa
- American Psychiatric Association
- American Public Health Association
- American Nurses Association
- Gregg Bloche
- Dr. Audrey Chapman
- Dr. Robert Lawrence
- Dr. Marian Gray Secundy
- Dr. H. Jack Geiger
- Dr. John Hatch
- Dr. Vincent Iacopino
- Leonard Rubenstein
- Diane Kuntz
- Dr. Barbara Nichols
