tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học: " Return to Galileo? The Inquisition of the International Narcotic Control Board"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Return to Galileo? The Inquisition of the International Narcotic Control Board | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Commentary Open Access Return to Galileo The Inquisition of the International Narcotic Control Board Dan Small 1 2 and Ernest Drucker3 4 Address Department of Medicine University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada 2Director PHS Community Services Society Vancouver Canada 3Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine NYC USA and 4Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health NYC USA Email Dan Small - dansmall@ Ernest Drucker - emdrucker@ Corresponding author Published 7 May 2008 Received 13 April 2008 Harm Reduction Journal 2008 5 16 doi 1477-7517-5-16 Accepted 7 May 2008 This article is available from http content 5 1 16 2008 Small and Drucker licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Nearly 400 years after Galileo Galilei of Florence was arraigned and convicted of suspected heresy by the ten member Congregation of the Holy Office Inquisition the International Narcotic Control Board INCB is similarly inserting itself into matters pertaining to innovations in healthcare and the public health response to addiction throughout the world. Like that earlier Inquisition of 1633 that convicted Galileo of heresy for holding that the sun is the centre of the universe with the earth revolving around it in contradiction to church doctrine of the time the INCB and its thirteen-member panel now rails against any evidence out of sync with the established doctrine of the war on drugs - particularly those innovations in public health called harm reduction. The latest healthcare and harm reduction practices to attract the ire of the INCB Inquisition are elements of Canada s most effective and .