Добавил:
Sekretar
kiopkiopkiop18@yandex.ru
t.me/Prokururor I Вовсе не секретарь, но почту проверяю
Опубликованный материал нарушает ваши авторские права? Сообщите нам.
Вуз:
Предмет:
Файл:Ординатура / Хирургия / Библиотека им академика М.И. Перельмана / Книга_67_библиотеки_им_акад_М_И_Перельмана
.pdf
THE TORTURE DOCTORS
THE
TORTURE
DOCTORS
HUMAN RIGHTS CRIMES
& THE ROAD TO JUSTICE
STEVEN H. MILES, MD
© 2020 Georgetown University Press. All rights reserved. No part of this book
may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or
mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage
and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
The publisher is not responsible for third-party websites or their content. URL
links were active at time of publication.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Miles, Steven H., author.
Title: The Torture Doctors : Human Rights Crimes and the Road to Justice /
Steven H. Miles, MD.
Description: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2020. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019018296 (print) | ISBN 9781626167520 (hardcover : alk.
paper) | ISBN 9781626167544 (ebook : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Torture—Moral and ethical aspects. | Physicians—Professional
ethics. | Political prisoners—Medical care—Moral and ethical aspects. | Human
rights.
Classification: LCC RA1122.8 .M55 2020 (print) | LCC RA1122.8 (ebook) | DDC
179.7—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019018296
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019980385
This book is printed on acid-free paper meeting the requirements of the
American National Standard for Permanence in Paper for Printed Library Materials.
21 20 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 First printing
Printed in the United States of America.
Cover design by Jeff Miller, Faceout Studio.
Cover images by Shutterstock and by Danil Novsky, Stocksy.
https://t.me/medicina_free
I will go for the benefit of the ill
,
while being far from all voluntary and destructive injustice
.
—Oath of Hippocrates, 450 BC
https://t.me/medicina_free
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
PART I: MEET THE TORTURE DOCTORS
1 Dr. Chand Sees a Burned Boy
2 Who Are the Torture Doctors?
3 What Is Torture?
4 What Is a Torture Doctor?
PART II: A TIME OF IMPUNITY
5 Judging the Nazi Doctors
6 A Global Map of Torture Doctors
7 The Paradox of the United Kingdom
PART III: HUMANISTS AND HEALERS
8 Humanists for Human Rights
9 Healers for Human Rights
10 Organized Medicine’s Condemn and Abide
PART IV: THE DAWN OF ACCOUNTABILITY
11 Innovations
12 Globalization
13 Impunity and the US War on Terror
https://t.me/medicina_free
14 Promoting Accountability
Appendix: Behavioral Examples of Torture Doctoring
Notes
Bibliographic Note
Index
About the Author
https://t.me/medicina_free
PREFACE
This book excavates a widespread, yet barely explored, medical
specialty: the torture doctor. This is a work of medical anthropology.
It describes how physicians collaborate with governments to create,
inflict, and conceal practices that are intended to inflict severe pain
and suffering. It recounts how human rights activists have pushed
reluctant governments and medical associations to bring torture
doctors to imperfect and rarely imposed forms of justice.
I am a recently retired professor of internal medicine. I
practiced medicine and taught medical ethics for thirty-five years.
The American Society of Bioethics and Humanities gave me its
Lifetime Achievement Award. Work with refugees took me to places
ripped apart by war and torture. I have met many torture survivors.
They are even among the professors and students of my teaching
hospital in Minnesota. They work in grocery stores, as journalists, or
as taxi drivers. The US Office of Refugee Resettlement estimates
that 500,000 torture survivors live in the United States, a total
roughly equal to the number of persons with Parkinson’s disease.
Think about that number; every adult knows someone with
Parkinson’s disease. Stigma makes torture survivors invisible. Many
are ashamed to tell their histories. Many people, even doctors, do
not inquire about the cause of a person’s nightmares or scars.
Silence pushes torture below its rightful place on the national
agenda, inhibiting survivors’ rehabilitation and delaying reform of
governmental and medical community policies.
https://t.me/medicina_free
People often ask those of us who rehabilitate survivors or who
study torture, Why on earth would you do that? The question
usually means that the topic is too distasteful or painful to
contemplate. Ironically, many people who ask this question relax at
home by watching torture for entertainment on a crime procedural
or spy drama. For six years I served on the Board of the Center for
Victims of Torture in Minneapolis. The center staff are as skilled as
they are gracious and profound. I do not know of any who consume
torture for entertainment.
In May 2004 I saw photographs of US soldiers abusing prisoners
in Iraq. Questions came to mind: Where were the doctors of Abu
Ghraib prison? Why had they not intervened when they saw the
injuries? I sought the answer by reading tens of thousands of
government pages that had been declassified by the American Civil
Liberties Union’s relentless barrage of Freedom of Information Act
requests. I expected to learn how the United States had suppressed
doctors’ protests. The truth was much more disheartening.
Physicians and psychologists did not protest; rather, they assumed
central roles in abusive interrogations. They designed and
monitored torture. Pathologists falsified death certificates to
prevent public discovery of torture. I wrote many articles and finally
a book,
Oath Betrayed: America’s Torture Doctors
. I indexed the
declassified documents and posted them on a website at the
University of Minnesota’s Human Rights Library, where they were
heavily used by lawyers and scholars.
1
My interests then went global. I tracked the practices of torture
doctors and the efforts to punish them around the world. I set up a
website, The Doctors Who Torture Accountability Project. I am
deeply grateful to Jay Lieberman, Mike Engelstad, and Laurie
Walker, who designed the website. In 2015 I wrote an ebook,
Doctors Who Torture: The Pursuit of Justice
, which drew from some
of the material on the website as I continued to compile
information. The website was decommissioned at the end of 2017.
Its files and many more are transferred to this book. My global
https://t.me/medicina_free
Соседние файлы в папке Библиотека им академика М.И. Перельмана