Medical Torture Online Journals
According to the Center for Constitutional Rights' When Healers Harm campaign,
health professionals were complicit in the torture and abuse of detainees during U.S. President George W. Bush's "war on terror".
Health professionals, including medical doctors, psychiatrists, medical examiners, psychologists, and nurses, have been implicated in the torture and abuse of prisoners in CIA secret prisons and military detention centers, such as those in Guantánamo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, crafting abusive tactics and falsely legitimizing their use; advised interrogators on methods of abuse that would exploit prisoners’ vulnerabilities; using medical procedures to harm prisoners; gauging pain and monitoring interrogations that risked leaving prisoners in need of treatment; checking prisoners to certify that they were capable of surviving additional abuse; conditioning medical or mental
health treatment on cooperation with interrogation; sharing confidential patient
information that was used to harm patients; covering up evidence of torture and abuse; and turning a blind eye to cruel treatment. Current knowledge about doctor participation in torture was reviewed at the symposium Torture and the Medical Profession. This particular topic has received increasing attention during the last few years, and the meeting may be seen as one in a series, following particularly Doctors, Ethics, and Torture in Copenhagen, 1986 and Physicians, Ethics, and Torture in Montevideo 1987.
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