APA: Members shouldn’t be involved with abusive interrogation
Via the Washington Post comes word that the American Psychological Association ruled Sunday that its members can no longer be associated with many of the “alternative” interrogation techniques in use...
View ArticleMilitary Doctors and Deaths by Torture: When a Witness Becomes an Accessory
Guest Blog Post: Steven Miles, M.D. This blog post will appears as an Editorial in this May’s upcoming issue of AJOB A Case (and Context) The Medical Practitioner Tribunal Service in the United Kingdom...
View ArticleDoctors Who Torture: Why No Punishment?
Maurice Bernstein, MD Torture has been in the United States’ “backyard” for a number of years. The forced feeding of Guantanamo detainees who are on “hunger strike” is a current example. One issue...
View ArticleThe CIA Torture Report: Health, Medicine & Ethics
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. On Tuesday, December 9, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on intelligence released its long awaited report on CIA interrogation and torture. This 500-page executive summary...
View ArticlePhysician-assisted suicide, torture, and Hippocrates: He may be old, but...
A recent op-ed piece in the Chicago Tribune avers that Hippocratism is dead; and since Hippocrates’ oath is all that stands in the way of that particular exercise of compassion and patient autonomy...
View ArticleThe American Psychological Association Interrogation Policy and Dr. Gerald...
by Steven Miles, M.D. A recent 542-page report describes a damning collaboration between the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Department of Defense (DoD) and other government...
View ArticleDr. Gerald Koocher’s Response: Comments on the Hoffman report
In response to an invitation to reply to the recent blog post by Steven Miles, Dr. Gerald Koocher sent the following attached document. Click to view Dr. Koocher and Dr. Levant’s comments on the...
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Fordham Panel to Address Questions about Human Rights in Age of Fear,...
By: Michael Aprea Few realities have shaken the foundation of human rights and the inherent liberties viewed common to all as profoundly as fear. Human rights, the set of rights believed to be...
View ArticleTwo Wrongs Do Not Make A Right
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. A draft of a new executive order that would re-open CIA black site prisons (facilities outside the United States where more torturous forms of interrogation are not prohibited)...
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