期刊全称 | Asylum Medicine | 期刊简称 | A Clinician‘s Guide | 影响因子2023 | Katherine C. McKenzie | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Is a first of its kind book on the emerging field of asylum medicine.Is written by experts in the field.Has a secondary audience of human rights and legal professionals | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | .Asylum medicine, a field encompassing medical forensic evaluations of asylum seekers, is an emerging discipline in healthcare. In a time of record global displacement due to human rights violations, conflict and persecution, interest in the medical and psychological evaluation of individuals subjected to torture and other ill-treatment is high. Health professionals are uniquely qualified to use their skills to make contributions to a group of vulnerable individuals fleeing danger and death in their home countries. .Health professionals involved in asylum medicine perform medical and psychological forensic evaluations of asylum seekers. Their educational background prepares them to examine and describe physical and emotional scars related to trauma, and further training allows them to assess these scars in the context of persecution, describe them in a medical-legal affidavit and support these findings with testimony. Providers of asylum medicine are often involved in advocacy, as many governments become increasingly hostile to asylum seekers. .Books on human rights exist, but there is no authoritative text of asylum medicine. This book presents a comprehensive overview of asylum m | Pindex | Book 2022 |
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