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

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

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Description
xv, 220 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm
Summary
"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
  • Abu Ghraib Prison
  • Prisoners of war > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Medical personnel > Professional ethics > United States
  • Medicine, Military > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Torture > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Prisoners of war > Abuse of > Iraq
  • Prisoners of war > Abuse of > Afghanistan
  • Prisoners of war > Abuse of > Cuba
  • War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Ethics, Medical
  • Torture > ethics
  • Military Medicine > ethics
  • War Crimes > ethics
  • Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-220).
Contents
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?
ISBN
140006578X
LCCN
  • 2006044863
  • 9781400065783
OCLC
  • OCM65400799
  • SCSB-5280645
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries