The Tortured Patient: A Medical Dilemma. The Tortured Patient: A Medical Dilemma.

The Tortured Patient: A Medical Dilemma‪.‬

The Hastings Center Report 2011, May-June, 41, 3

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Doctors sometimes find themselves presented with a grim choice: abandon a patient or be complicit in torture. Since complicity is a matter of degree and other moral factors may have great weight, sometimes being complicit is the right thing to do. Torture is unethical and usually counterproductive. It is prohibited by international and national laws. Yet it persists: according to Amnesty International, torture is widespread in more than a third of countries. (1) Physicians and other medical professionals are frequently asked to assist with torture. For example, a recently declassified report from the Central Intelligence Agency on interrogation at Guantanamo Bay states: "OMS [Office of Medical Services] provided comprehensive medical attention to detainees ... where Enhanced Interrogation Techniques were employed with high value detainees." (2)

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
2011
1 May
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
34
Pages
PUBLISHER
Hastings Center
SIZE
190.4
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