Comments on: Book Review: Torture and health professionals http://www.hhropenforum.org/2009/05/book-review-torture-and-health-professionals/ Advancing global health and social justice Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:38:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Neil Whitehead http://www.hhropenforum.org/2009/05/book-review-torture-and-health-professionals/comment-page-1/#comment-285 Neil Whitehead Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:49:35 +0000 http://www.hhropenforum.org/?p=369#comment-285 This s very important and welcome material.... I would like to draw your attention to a parallel discussion in anthropology following two events - firstly the suggestion that cultural information supplied by an anthropologist's research was used to assist interrogation and secondly the broader attempt by the military to recruit anthropologists to form "human terrain teams" that would assist in combat operations. As a matter of comparative methodology the following article on Ethnography and Torture may be of interest - http://wisc.academia.edu/NeilWhitehead/Papers/85800/Ethnography--Torture-and-the-Human-Terrain---Terror-Systems This s very important and welcome material…. I would like to draw your attention to a parallel discussion in anthropology following two events – firstly the suggestion that cultural information supplied by an anthropologist’s research was used to assist interrogation and secondly the broader attempt by the military to recruit anthropologists to form “human terrain teams” that would assist in combat operations.

As a matter of comparative methodology the following article on Ethnography and Torture may be of interest – http://wisc.academia.edu/NeilWhitehead/Papers/85800/Ethnography–Torture-and-the-Human-Terrain—Terror-Systems

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