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Guantanamo: ethics, interrogation, and forced feeding.

Medical ethics at Guantanamo Bay detention centre and in the US military: a time for reform.

President Obama has pledged to close the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by Jan 23, 2010. Physicians have a special interest in how this pledge is going to be accomplished since the use of brutal interrogation and force-feeding of prisoners as sanctioned by George Bush’s administration has damaged the integrity of the physicians working for the military and the Central Intelligence...

Medical ethics at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib: the problem of dual loyalty.

Although knowledge of torture and physical and psychological abuse was widespread at both the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and known to medical personnel, there was no official report before the January 2004 Army investigation of military health personnel reporting abuse, degradation or signs of torture. Military medical personnel are placed in a position of ...

Doctors as pawns? Law and medical ethics at Guantánamo Bay.

This symposium poses the question: “Guantanamo Bay: How should we respond?” When I thought about this question, it occurred to me that we talk about “responding” in a number of ways. We respond in games, such as chess or bridge. But the detention policy of the Bush Administration (“the Administration”) is not a game—certainly not from the perspectives of those who are being (or have been) detai...

Guantanamo Bay: a medical ethics-free zone?

n engl j med 369;2 nejm.org july 11, 2013 101 taken on behalf of the government, devalue medical ethics for all physicians. The ongoing hunger strike at Guantanamo by as many as 100 of the 166 remaining prisoners presents a stark challenge to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to resist the temptation to use military physicians to “break” the strike through force-feeding. President Barack Oba...