Participation of Health Care Personnel in Torture and Interrogation

2005 
To the Editor: The profession of medicine has developed codes of ethical conduct over thousands of years. A central element of such codes is expressed in the imperative to “do no harm.” Disclosures with regard to the treatment of detainees by licensed medical personnel in the “war on terror” in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have revealed undeniable breaches of medical ethics among U.S. military health care personnel involved at these — and perhaps other — sites.1 The International Red Cross has charged that some of the physical and emotional tactics used constitute cruel and unusual punishment. The Geneva . . .
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