“If law be the bedrock of civil society, it can no more undergird torture than it could support slavery or genocide.” –from the Introduction

After Dr. Steven H. Miles, an expert in medical ethics and an advocate for human rights, learned of torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay, and elsewhere, first question was:

“Where were the prison doctors while the abuses were taking place?”

In Oath Betrayed, Dr. Miles answers this question. In the book, Dr. Miles gives a detailed picture of the medical system after 9/11, when the U.S. military began using physicians, psychologists and other medical personnel to assist in the interrogations of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere.

The book is based on meticulous research, including eyewitness accounts from victims of prison abuse, and more than thirty-five thousand records obtained after the ACLU put a FOIA suit, a Freedom of Information Act suit.Those records include Army criminal investigations, FBI notes, autopsy reports, and prisoners’ medical records.