Apartheid Medicine
The health care system once practised in the Republic of South Africa which was historically a ‘soft’ extension of the government’s policies of racial discriminationSegen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Stephen Bantu Biko, a medical student (at the very same institute that currently employs Professor Chima) and the voice of our conscience, was detained, tortured and murdered by the apartheid regime, an act in which
apartheid medicine was an accomplice.
Some 21 years ago, Mary Rayner, an Amnesty International researcher, penned a searing indictment of
apartheid medicine entitled Turning a Blind Eye: Medical Accountability and the Prevention of Torture in South Africa.
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