Oath Betrayed: America's Torture Doctors
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (681 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520259688 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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policy and military medicine—a direction that not so long ago was unthinkable.. This updated and expanded paperback edition gives newly uncovered details about the policies that engage clinicians in torture. The news that the United States tortured prisoners in the war on terror has brought shame to the nation, yet little has been written about the doctors and psychologists at these prisons. Miles tells how doctors, psychologists, and medics cleared prisoners for interrogation, advised and monitored abuse, falsif
Kenneth S. Pope said The Best Book on This Topic. Having tried to read every article and book that addresses the controversy over physicians and psychologists participating in the planning or implementation of detainee interrogations, I believe this second edition is one of the essential works and in my opinion the best.It deserves the strong reviews from Robert Jay Lifton, Seymour Hersh, Adam Liptak, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Time, and so many others.For those who do not know Steven Miles' background, he is Professor of Medicine & Bioethics at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneap. "Chilling and inspiring" according to Wanda K. Mohr. Words failed me when I completed reading Steven Miles' Oath Betrayed. They come no more easily now as I write this review. My dread in putting into words what and how the material in his book has made me feel as a health care professional is compounded by yet another "sucker punch." The latest blow came with the recent release of the four secret memos in response to litigation by the ACLU that were used by the Bush administration to justify torture. But silence of any kind, whether born of fear, intimidation, coercion, apathy, or revulsion is simply una. "Important work, but could be better written" according to Dienne. "Where were the doctors and nurses at Abu Ghraib?"This was the question that prompted Steven Miles to begin probing into medical complicity in prisoner abuse in the "War on Terror". His resulting book, "Oath Betrayed: America's Torture Doctors", is yet another in a series of profoundly important books documenting the abuse, neglect and outright torture of prisoners in U.S. custody from our base in Guantanamo Bay to prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan to secret "black site" prisons throughout the globe. This time the focus is specifically on the role of doct
"Compellingly details instances in which health professionals violate the Hippocratic Oath, professional ethical strictures, and the Geneva Conventions."--"Human Rights Qtly""Painstaking path-breaking accounts of the self-degradation of health professions."--Nat Hentoff"The Bemidji Pioneer" (09/17/2009)Painstaking path-breaking accounts of the self-degradation of health professions. --Nat Hentoff"The Bemidji Pioneer" (09/17/2009)"