Physicians at Guantanamo Violate Medical Ethics: Study

[G_j]

http://www.alternet.org/rss/breaking_news/74475/physicians_at_guantanamo_violate_medical_ethics%3A_study/

Physicians at Guantanamo Violate Medical Ethics: Study

Agence France Presse


The use of physicians at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay has forced medical professionals to violate their ethics codes, according to findings published Thursday in the UK journal Lancet.

The roles that medical professionals have been called on to play at the controversial detention facility "has damaged the integrity of the physicians working for the military and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)," the study said.

"These physicians had a conflict of loyalty because of their ethical obligations to their imprisoned patients and the Bush administration's demands to further the goals and interests of military commanders and intelligence officials.

The paper was authored by Leonard Rubenstein, executive director of Physicians for Human Rights, and George Annas, a professor at Boston University and an expert on bioethics.

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[mmonk]

1. I have to advocate buying "Oath Betrayed: America's Torture Doctors"

by Stephen H. Miles, MD., University of California Press. It is quite revealing, scary, and disgusting.

[G_j]

3. thank you

here is an interview from Democracy now!
http://www.democracynow.org/2006/6/30/oath_betrayed_torture_medical_complicity_and

Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror

After 9/11, the U.S. military began using physicians, psychologists and other medical personnel to assist in the interrogations of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere. We take a look at the role of doctors and interrogation with Dr. Steven Miles, an expert in medical ethics and author of the new book, “Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror.”

[mmonk]

4. Thanks for the link.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. As I understand it, there are no penalties for it

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

[G_j]

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