An Ambulance of the Wrong Colour: Health Professionals, Human Rights and Ethics in South AfricaLaurel Baldwin-Ragaven, Leslie London, Jeanelle De Gruchy A study on the ethical problems afflicting the health sector this work catalogues, through numerous cases, the misconduct of health professionals with regard to civilians, prisoners and military personnel; documents the misuse of scientific research, health professional and training institutions, and statutory councils for apartheid purposes; observes the failings of a profession trying to provide health care in the absence of a culture of human rights; and identifies ways in which human rights and ethical dilemmas recur in the current context of democratic transformation. |
Contents
Confronting the past the health sector in transition | 1 |
Health and the apartheid state | 17 |
Civilian health services willing servants of apartheid security forces | 50 |
Health care in custody providing services in the closed institutions of the security forces | 71 |
Health professionals in the South African military | 119 |
The scientific justification research for apartheid | 131 |
Health professional institutions organisations statutory councils and training institutions | 142 |
Common terms and phrases
activities African Medical Journal Amnesty International apartheid assault bantustans Baragwanath Biko's black doctors Cape Town Chapter clinical coloured Commission conduct custody death detainee-patient detainees detention without trial district surgeons DPSC Dr Tucker evidence examination example forensic Gluckman Groote Schuur Hospital groups Health and Human health professionals health professions Health Sector Hearings health services health workers Heerden HHRP human rights abuses included injuries inquest institutions involved issues Johannesburg Mail and Guardian MASA Medical Association medical ethics medical profession Medicine military NAMDA Neil Aggett patients Personal communication personnel political population Port Elizabeth practice Pretoria prison profes programme protect race racial racist repression responsibility role SADF SAMDC SAMJ Editor security forces security police social society South Africa South African health South African Medical staff Steve Biko tion torture TRC Health Sector treatment University Wendy Orr Western Cape