Monday, November 04, 2013

medical ethics

""The Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers (see attached) concludes that since September 11, 2001, the Department of Defense (DoD) and CIA improperly demanded that U.S. military and intelligence agency health professionals collaborate in intelligence gathering and security practices in a way that inflicted severe harm on detainees in U.S. custody. These practices included "designing, participating in, and enabling torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment" of detainees, according to the report.""