Health infrastructure a casualty of war on terror within Pakistan

Will medical ethics be a casualty of the war on terror?

Allegations of involvement in detainee maltreatment by military medical personnel serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay have been made in media reports, professional journals, and leaked reports of the International Committee of the Red Cross. These allegations include physician participation in interrogations involving coercive techniques. In June 2005, The New York Times published ...

The War on Cancer: Lessons from the War on Terror

The war metaphor has become commonplace in discussions about our endeavor to find a cure for cancer. But beyond the power of imagery, this analogy offers the opportunity to highlight lessons that warriors of cancer can learn from the warriors of terror: that more efficient killing of the undesired cells may not always be better. Evidence suggesting that drug-stressed and dying cancer cells can ...

Deterrence in the Cold War and the “War on Terror”

Southeast Asia : Winning the War on Terror ?

ECONOMIC LEADERS FROM AROUND the world gathered in Hanoi, Vietnam for the 14 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in November of 2006. With this year’s theme of “Towards a Dynamic Community for Sustainable Development and Prosperity,” the APEC community strived to make clear its support for the Doha Development Agenda. In addition, the forum emphasized the need to protect human secu...

Multiple casualty terror events: the anesthesiologist's perspective.

UNLABELLED In a 28-mo period 14 multiple-casualty terror events occurred in Jerusalem, challenging the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine of the city's sole Level 1 trauma center. We performed a retrospective review of the response of the department to evaluate staff activities, resource use (emergency department, operating rooms, and intensive care unit [ICU]), and patient...