Medicine inside: Prisons, participatory research, and practising with hope behind bars

S de Leeuw - Canadian Family Physician, 2017 - cfp.ca
“It was like going to another planet,” she says, likening where she practised to a habitation
pod in some faraway universe: there are long corridors, windowless halls. Doors clang …

Case 7: Transitioning From Prison to Community

A Green, G Betts-Symonds, A Thind - Western Public Health …, 2017 - ir.lib.uwo.ca
“My name is Joe and I've been working as an inmate Irish Red Cross volunteer, helping
other prisoners with improving hygiene and delivering healthy messages. In the past, I was …

Unlocking potential: challenges for primary health care researchers in the prison setting

G Hek - Primary Health Care Research & Development, 2006 - cambridge.org
Primary Health Care Research and Development 2006; 7: 91–94 a 'health needs' driven
service, and greater patient empowerment (HMIP, 2004). There are currently 85 PCTs that …

[BOOK][B] Public health behind bars: from prisons to communities

R Greifinger - 2007 - Springer
This is a book of what ifs. What if we discovered a vast and untapped resource, a resource
that could yield improved population health status and lower social costs? What if we could …

Prisons and protocols for health

K Daniel - Community Practitioner, 2003 - search.proquest.com
The catalyst for improvement in the delivery of care often comes via an individual. For
Angela Bates a community nurse clinician for the homeless employed by West Cheshire …

Mass Incarceration and Correctional Medicine: The Dialectics of Caring for Prisoners

R Cohen - Annual Meeting - apha.confex.com
Over two million men and women are imprisoned in the United States today. Correctional
Medicine has been preoccupied with providing medical care for more and more prisoners in …

[HTML][HTML] Dying Behind Bars?

CB Zapata - geripal.org
Last week's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine featured an article authored by a
physician at San Quentin Prison, a maximum-security correctional facility just 30 minutes …

[HTML][HTML] Can we do better? Rebecca Roberts reviews Locked down, locked out describing it as a useful resource for activists

R Roberts - Criminal Justice Matters, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Many academic papers, political speeches and newspaper column inches have been
devoted to the idea that–with a tweak here and a tweak there–the police, courts, prisons and …

Medicine behind bars: treatment or torture?

A Gilmore - Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1983 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The congress was organized by the International Council of Prison Medical Services, an
apolitical group of health care professionals in the field of prison medicine. Among the …

Prisoner/patient struggles: A view from the inside

A Berkman - Humanity & Society, 1991 - journals.sagepub.com
I have been a political activist since the 1960s and a community physician for 20 years. I
became interested in prison health care at the time of the Attica Rebellion in 1971 and was a …