A01=Steven H. Miles
advised and monitored abuse
Author_Steven H. Miles
Category=MBDC
cleared prisoners for interrogation
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expanded
falsified documents
information gathering to coercive experiements
largely silent as scandal unfolded
medical complicity in torture
policies that engage clinicians in torture
psychologists participating in interrogations
tortured prisoners in war on terror
updated
us policy and military medicine
Product details
- ISBN 9780520259683
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Apr 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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. In "Oath Betrayed", medical ethics expert and physician Steven H. Miles tells how doctors, psychologists, and medics cleared prisoners for interrogation, advised and monitored abuse, falsified documents - including death certificates - and were largely silent as the scandal unfolded. This updated and expanded paperback edition gives newly uncovered details about the policies that engage clinicians in torture. It discusses the ongoing furor over psychologists' participating in interrogations. Most explosively this new edition shows how interrogation psychologists may have moved from information-gathering to coercive experiments, warning all of us about a new direction in U.S. policy and military medicine - a direction that not so long ago was unthinkable.
Steven H. Miles is Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School, a member of its Center for Bioethics, and a practicing physician. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities.
