“Miles asks. . . how [the American Psychological Association] came to give a platform to ‘senior Department of Defense officials who were intimately involved in the support, protection, and implementation of corrupted interrogation standards.’”
“The Hippocratic Oath states that doctors should consider first the health of the patient and never do physical harm. Given that at least a dozen prisoners -- and likely more -- have died by homicide in military prisons this decade, many have wondered how often doctors monitored torturous interrogations without intervening, as was mandated by designers of the interrogation program. . . . Oath Betrayed: America's Torture Doctors, describes widespread medical abuses and cover-ups in U.S. military prisons.”
“The new, updated edition reworks the original subtitle (”Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror”), delves into whether psychologists used interrogations to perform coercive experiments and provides a handy guide for book groups.”
“For every incident of torture by U.S. soldiers in the “war on terror,” there are doctors and psychologists overseeing the prisoners, in effect advising on the abuse and often falsifying documents. Medical ethicist Miles investigates the phenomenon and the medical personnel who implement it.”
"This, quite simply, is the most devastating and detailed investigation into a question that has remained a no-no in the current debate on American torture in George Bush's war on terror: the role of military physicians, nurses and other medical personnel. Dr. Miles writes in a white rage, with great justification—but he lets the facts tell the story."—Seymour M. Hersh
"Steven Miles has written exactly the book we require on medical complicity in torture. His admirable combination of scholarship and moral passion does great service to the medical profession and to our country."—Robert Jay Lifton, author of The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide and Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans - Neither Victims nor Executioners
