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

by Steven Miles

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Steven Miles, MD is Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis and is on the faculty of the University’s Center for Bioethics.
He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics and teaches and practices at the University of Minnesota.
He has served as President of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities and received its Distinguished Service Award. His other awards include the National Council of Teachers of English’ George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language and membership in the National Honor Society for Public Affairs and Administration.
He has published three books and more than twenty chapters and 120 peer-reviewed articles on medical ethics, human rights, tropical medicine, end of life care and geriatric health care. His latest book, Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror, Random House, 2006 examines military medicine in the war on terror prisons. The Hippocratic Oath and the Ethics of Medicine, Oxford University Press, reviews the meaning of the Hippocratic Oath as illuminated by the medical texts of its time.
He has taught in many countries and has served as medical director for the American Refugee Committee for twenty-five years which has included service as chief medical officer for 45,000 refugees on the Thai Cambodian border and projects in Sudan, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzogovina, Indonesia and the Thai-Burmese border.
His work has changed end of life care, nursing home care, and medical care in prisons and refugee camps.

About the Book

“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, M.D., author of The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, and co-editor of Crimes of War: Iraq

“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, author of Chain of Command

"Despite the horrible lessons learned from the Nuremberg trials, some health professionals sworn to avoid, prevent, and expose torture have again failed to live up to their promises. Miles is well qualified to present his independent 'expert witness' review."—San Francisco Chronicle

"Dispassionate, inflinching, unforgettable, Miles allows us to revisit Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo as thinking, nonjudgmental witnesses, thereby revealing the true horror of what happened there. Miles succeeds in connecting the distant abstraction of torture to the realm of individual values and personal responsibility."—Los Angeles Times Book Review

"A harrowing documentation of how the military medical profession has been corrupted by the Bush-Rumsfeld interrogation rules."—Time

"Collects countless examples of medical complicity in abuse that is all the more disturbing for the lack of any notable protest."—The New York Times

"Lends strong support to the absolutist foes of torture, on humane and practical grounds alike and argues convincingly that confessions elicited under torture are of dubious reliability."—Washington Post

Oath Betrayed

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Monday, November 24, 2008

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

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