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EPISODE · Mar 24, 2016 · 15 MIN

Should doctors boycott working in Australia’s immigration detention centres?

from Medicine and Science from The BMJ · host The BMJ

However well intentioned, working in detention centres amounts to complicity in torture, says David Berger, a district medical officer in emergency medicine at Broome Hospital in Australia. However, Steven Miles, chair in bioethics at the University of Minnesota thinks that they play an important role in telling the world about conditions in these camps. Read the full debate: http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i1600

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