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Oath betrayed : torture, medical complicity, and the war on terror

Title
  1. Oath betrayed : torture, medical complicity, and the war on terror / Steven H. Miles.
Published by
  1. New York : Random House, [2006], ©2006.
Supplementary content
  1. Contributor biographical information
  2. Publisher description
Author
  1. Miles, Steven H.

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Description
  1. xv, 220 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm
Summary
  1. "When Steven H. Miles, an expert in medical ethics and an advocate for human rights, learned of the neglect, mistreatment, and torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and elsewhere, one of his first thoughts was: "Where were the prison doctors while the abuses were taking place?"" "In Oath Betrayed, Miles explains the answer to this question. Not only were doctors, nurses, and medics silent while prisoners were abused; physicians and psychologists actually provided information that helped determine how much and what kind of mistreatment could be delivered to detainees during interrogation." "Miles has based this book on meticulous research and a wealth of resources, including unprecedented eyewitness accounts from actual victims of prison abuse, and more than thirty-five thousand pages of documentation acquired through provisions of the Freedom of Information Act: army criminal investigations, FBI notes on debriefings of prisoners, autopsy reports, and prisoners' medical records." "Oath Betrayed is a denunciation not of American military policy or of war in general, but of a profound betrayal of traditions that have shaped the medical corps of the United States armed forces and of America's abdication of its leadership role in international human rights."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  1. Medical personnel > Professional ethics > United States
  2. Prisoners of war > Abuse of > Cuba
  3. Torture > ethics
  4. War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 > Moral and ethical aspects
  5. Ethics, Medical
  6. War Crimes > ethics
  7. Prisoners of war > Medical care > Moral and ethical aspects
  8. Prisoners of war > Abuse of > Iraq
  9. Torture > Moral and ethical aspects
  10. Medicine, Military > Moral and ethical aspects
  11. Prisoners of war > Abuse of > Afghanistan
  12. Abu Ghraib Prison
  13. Military Medicine > ethics
  14. Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba)
Contents
  1. Pt. I. "We are selling our souls for dross" -- Ch. 1. Torture -- Ch. 2. Medicine and torture -- Pt. II. "Tantamount to torture" -- Ch. 3. Interrogation -- Ch. 4. Homicide -- Ch. 5. Neglect -- Ch. 6. Silence -- Pt. III. "Plain language" -- Ch. 7. Grave breaches -- Ch. 8. Why oppose torture?
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-220).