“Talk with the patient while you are restraining him. Explain what you are doing and that you are using a restraint to ensure that he is safe.”
NASA instructions for restraining a psychotic or suicidal fellow astronaut using duct tape, bungee cords and tranquillisers (AP, 24 February)
“We knew that we’d lost the war. Our psychological state was very strange by then. In those conditions, we could do anything, absolutely anything.”
Akira Makino, a former medical auxiliary in the Japanese navy, breaks a 60-year silence to describe how he performed medical vivisection on prisoners of war in the Philippines The…
