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0269/2024 - Doutores da ditadura: médicos e violação dos direitos humanos no Brasil (1964-1985)

Author:

• César Guerra Chevrand - Chevrand, C. G. - <cesar.chevrand@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7282-1450

Co-author(s):

• Gilberto Hochman - Hochman, G. - <gilberto.hochman@fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7834-336X


Abstract:

The article discusses the participation of doctors in the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985) and identifies the main ways in which these doctors contributed with their technical and scientific knowledge and their institutional positions to the repression of the regime\'s opponents. The authors argue that this collaboration was not casual, but strategic, organized and systematic in assisting interrogations and practices of physical and psychological torture, as well as in covering up human rights violations. The article points out that this collaboration between doctors and the authoritarian regime violated all professional codes of ethics and international conventions for the protection and promotion of human rights, as well as the Hippocratic Oath. The main historical sources on which the article is based are documentsthe Brasil Nunca Mais Project and the final report of the National Truth Commission (CNV), as well as reportsstates truth commissions. It concludes that the scant civil, criminal and professional punishment of doctors involved in the regime\'s violence, protected by the 1979 Amnesty and other subsequent legal provisions, characterizes an incomplete rupture with the authoritarian legacies of the past, with consequences for the present and future of Brazilian democracy.

Keywords:

Medicine; military; human rights; torture; authoritarianism; ethics

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Chevrand, C. G., Hochman, G.. Doutores da ditadura: médicos e violação dos direitos humanos no Brasil (1964-1985). Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2024/Jul). [Citado em 05/10/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/doutores-da-ditadura-medicos-e-violacao-dos-direitos-humanos-no-brasil-19641985/19317?id=19317&id=19317



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