Oath Betrayed - Americas Torture Doctors

Zusatztext "Compellingly details instances in which health professionals violate the Hippocratic Oath! professional ethical strictures! and the Geneva Conventions." Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "This, quite simply, is the most devastating and detailed investigation into a question that has remained a no-no in the current debate on American torture in George Bush's war on terror: the role of military physicians, nurses and other medical personnel. Dr. Miles writes in a white rage, with great justification—but he lets the facts tell the story."—Seymour M. Hersh "Steven Miles has written exactly the book we require on medical complicity in torture. His admirable combination of scholarship and moral passion does great service to the medical profession and to our country."—Robert Jay Lifton, author of The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide and Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans - Neither Victims nor Executioners Zusammenfassung The news that the United States tortured prisoners in the war on terror has brought shame to the nation. This title presents 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.

Product details

• Authors: Steven H Miles, Steven H. Miles, Miles Steven H.
• Assisted by: Steven H. Miles M.D. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.2009
• EAN: 9780520259683
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25968-3
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, MEDICAL / Ethics, United States of America, USA, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct