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The war isn’t over, but Ukraine is already prosecuting Russian crimes
Russians who've committed war crimes in Ukraine may be counting on the conventional wisdom that accountability for such acts — if it comes at all — will be many years in the future. But that assumption is about to be upended. Ukraine’s chief war-crimes prosecutor Yuriy Belousov has told us that his office is moving forward with charges in four model cases involving mass disappearances, torture and killing of civilians.
The war isn't over, but Ukraine is already prosecuting Russian crimes
Placeholder while article actions load Gregg Bloche is the Carmack Waterhouse professor of health law, policy and ethics at Georgetown University.
Stopping Torture: Why Professional Governance Failed, and How It Can Do Better
In January 2020, former CIA psychologist James Mitchell – reputed architect of the agency’s post-9/11 torture program – shocked Guantanamo war court observers with his insouciance.
Health Policy’s Gordian Knot: Rethinking Cost Control
Medical spending has resumed its long-term rise. After several years of deceptive stability in the last, deep recession’s wake, health spending rose by 3.7 percentage points more than general inflation in 2014, then by 5.8 percentage points more in 2015, to a 17.8 percent share of the US economy. Not only does this spending rise threaten the United States’ fiscal stability and capacity to address other needs; it is undermining the promise of health care for all.
Gregg Bloche: Transgender law shouldn’t be written by psychiatrists
Should psychiatrists have the power to rewrite civil rights law by revising their diagnostic categories? By basing its push for transgender rights on a change in clinical taxonomy, the Obama administration is giving them this authority. From 1980 until 2013, American psychiatrists applied the term "gender identity disorder" to people whose sexual anatomy didn't match their sexual identity.
Transgender law shouldn’t be written by psychiatrists
Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week, we’re talking about school transgender law. Need a primer? Catch up here. Gregg Bloche is professor of law at Georgetown University and author of “The Hippocratic Myth.” Should psychiatrists have the power to rewrite civil rights law by revising their diagnostic categories?
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