A
Randomized Controlled Trial
Bradley
D. Stein; Lisa H. Jaycox, Sheryl H. Kataoka, Marleen Wong, Wenli Tu, Marc N.
Elliott, Arlene Fink
Vol. 290 No. 5, August 6, 2003 - JAMA. 2003;290:603-611.
Journal
of the American Medical Association. A special edition devoted to studies
about violence and human rights
The
study: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/290/5/603
The
RAND press release: http://www.rand.org/hot/press.03/08.05.html
".....A
simple school-based program can help students suffering from emotional and
behavioral problems that are caused by exposure to multiple acts of violence,
according to a RAND study released August 5, 2003.
Book
Review: Science in the Service of Human Rights
M. Gregg Bloche JAMA.
2003;290:672-673.
Science
in the Service of Human Rights by Richard Pierre Claude
ISBN 0-8122-3679-3, Philadelphia, Pa, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/290/5/672
"......After
briefly considering international law's treatment of scientific freedom and
scientists' social responsibilities, Claude turns to these efforts. They fall
into four categories: (1) avoidance of complicity by scientists (including
physicians) in government conduct that violates internationally recognized
civil and political rights or humanitarian law (the law of war), (2) use of
science to document breaches of human rights and humanitarian law, (3)
advocacy for broader interpretations of human rights and humanitarian law, and
(4) promotion of social and economic rights, especially rights to health and
to the benefits of scientific progress...."
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