Why two torture committees?

Breaking the oath: Why physicians torture.

Shane O’Mara’s Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation

Waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and solitary confinement were some of the tactics outlined and authorized in a series of Bush Administration secret legal documents, known as the "torture memos," which were made public in 2009. Shane O'Mara's new book casts morality aside to examine whether torture produces reliable information. He reviews existing research in psychology and neuroscience to hi...

Why Did Hospital Ethics Committees Emerge in the US?

Ethics committees are the primary mechanism for dealing with ethical issues in hospitals in the United States today [1-3]. Present in nearly every US hospital, ethics committees were virtually nonexistent in the 1960s and ’70s and, as recently as the early 1980s, were present in only 1 percent of US hospitals [4]. By the late 1980s, however, ethics committee presence had expanded to over 60 per...

SymposiumPlanner-2011: Querying Two Virtual Organization Committees

SymposiumPlanner-2011 is the newest in a series of Rule Responder instantiations for the Questions&Answers (Q&A) sections of the o cial websites of the RuleML Symposia. It supports committee members via personal agents based on member-encoded rule knowledge. The personal agents are invoked by an organizational agent which selects them using a responsibility assignment matrix. This paper describ...

Contributory torture.

Sir, Contributory torture occurs when the behavior of the offender influences the behavior of the interrogator or, in a broader sense, anyone disciplining the offender. The word contributory is used because if the offender acts up, he/she is part of the reason for the type of punishment he/she receives. For example, if two people are arrested and one follows the directions of the officer and th...