Frances Ames
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Frances Ames
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Frances Rix Ames was a South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist, best known for leading the medical ethics inquiry into the death of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, who died from medical neglect after being tortured in police custody. When the South African Medical and Dental Council (SAMDC) declined to discipline the chief district surgeon and his assistant who treated Biko, Ames and a group of five academics and physicians raised funds and fought an eight-year leg
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South African physician
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Ames
date created:
2014-08-10T02:59:50Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T19:04:06Z
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