Guantanamo Bay Teach-In
Session Three: First, Do No Harm: Medical Professionals and Guantanamo
Worldwide attention has been focused on allegations of abuse during interrogation of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, as well as in Iraq and Afghanistan. The current controversy about Guantanamo interrogations adds the dilemma of determining when psychological pressure turns into torture.
Military physicians at Guantanamo have two very different functions: the traditional role of treating those detained, and the nontraditional role of assisting the administration in obtaining information from the detainees through interrogations. Physicians for Human Rights have stated that doctors and psychologists at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay are taking part in practices, including force feeding, that violate medical ethics. Doctors at Guantanamo have inserted feeding tubes through the noses of prisoners on hunger strike. Psychiatrists and psychologists have observed harsh......
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