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Description of  Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror

If law be the bedrock of civil society, it can no more undergird torture than it could support slavery or genocide. from the Introduction The graphic photographs of U.S. military personnel grinning over abused Arab and Muslim prisoners shocked the world community. That the United States was systematically torturing inmates at prisons run by its military and civilian leaders divided the nation and brought deep shame to many. 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, Guantnamo Bay, and elsewhere, one of his first thoughts was: Where were the prison doctors while the abuses were taking place? In Read more