Medical professionals complicit in Abu Ghraib torture, says bioethicist
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Bioethicist questions medical
professionals' role in Abu Ghraib
Bioethicist questions medical
professionals' role in Abu Ghraib
08/19/2004 11:11 PMIn a scathing editorial published by British medical journl The
Lancet, bioethicist Dr. Stephen H. Miles says U.S. military medical
personnel were complicit in detainee torture incidents that took place
in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The document details
cases of alleged abuse participation by medical personnel, and calls
for a formal inquiry.
There are isolated reports that medical personnel directly
abused detainees. Two detainees' depositions describe an incident
where a doctor allowed a medically untrained guard to suture a
prisoner's lacertation from being beaten. The medical system failed to
accurately report illnesses and injuries. Abu Ghraib authorities did
not notify families of deaths, sicknesses, or transfers to medical
facilities as required by the Convention. A medic inserted a
intravenous catheter into the corpse of a detainee who died under
torture in order to create evidence that he was alive at the hospital.
In another case, an Iraqi man, taken into custody by US soldiers was
found months later by his family in an Iraqi hospital. He was
comatose, had three skull fractures, a severe thumb fracture, and
burns on the bottoms of his feet. An accompanying US medical report
stated that heat stroke had triggered a heart attack that put him in a
coma; it did not mention the injuries.
Death certificates of detainees in Afghanistan and Iraq were falsified
or their release or completion was delayed for months. Medical
investigators either failed to investigate unexpected deaths of
detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan or performed cursory evaluations and
physicians routinely attributed detainee deaths on death certificates
to heart attacks, heat stroke, or natural causes without noting the
unnatural aetiology of the death. In one example, soldiers tied a
beaten detainee to the top of his cell door and gagged him. The death
certificate indicated that he died of "natural causes . . . during his
sleep." After news media coverage, the Pentagon revised the
certificate to say that the death was a "homicide" caused by "blunt
force injuries and asphyxia."
Link (registration required; o
bugmenot, where foreart thou?).
Link to
Washington Post story with partial synopsis of
the report.
Link to
Miles' home page at the University of Minnesota Bioethics school, and
Link
to his latest book,
The Hippocratic Oath and the Ethics of
Medicine, which looks like a worthy read.
The New Yorker on the torture at Abu
Ghraib
The New Yorker on the torture at Abu
Ghraib
05/03/2004 08:43 PMIn case anyone missed this, there is a detailed
article on the torture at Abu Ghraib in The New Yorker. Unlike the sniper rumor, this one is pretty much
documented fact. I realize that this is obviously not standard
behavior, but it is not a single wacko, but a group of soldiers. It's
really quite appalling. How can something like this happen? What is
the mood like among American soldiers in Iraq? Is there a general
hatred or is it really isolated behavior? I can't imagine an occupying
force being very successful without some basic respect for the local
citizens.
I remember hearing that the occupying forces in post-war Japan were
selected from soldiers who had not served in combat against the
Japanese. Most of the stories you hear about the soldiers occupying
Japan are good stories. I suppose it's easier to be nice when there is
no resistance, but still... (My sister has a nice post about the story of our family's
first interaction with the US occupation of Japan.)
I also heard from a Spanish friend of mine that there is very
little if no hatred towards Muslims after the 3/11 attack in Madrid.
People realize that it is a splinter group and are not blaming the
Muslims.
I don't want to over-generalize, but trying to link Al Qaeda to
Iraq and some of the hate crimes against Muslims in the US really
highlights the lack of racial sympathy or understanding on the US's
part. I think the US really needs to figure out how to deal with this
racial intolerance and ignorance if it's going to try do any kind of
nation building.
Before someone else says it, I think racism in Japan is also very
bad, but we're not toppling regimes and trying to rebuild them. I
wouldn't trust Japan with that either.
Vital medical portal launched online for
professionals
Vital medical portal launched online for
professionals
07/08/2004 05:44 AMAmeinfo.com - Thu Jul 8, 07:52 am GMT
Online Journals Have Room to Create More
Value for Scientific and Medical
Professionals
Online Journals Have Room to Create More
Value for Scientific and Medical
Professionals
03/25/2005 07:14 AMWhile online versions of “Nature”, “Science” and “Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science” enjoy widespread readership in the
scientific and medical communities, a recent survey shows that
researchers most often read specialty journals that are closely
associated with their particular field. Additionally, the prestige of
a journal and the size of its overall readership do not always result
in exceptionally high levels of user satisfaction. [PRWEB Mar 25,
2005]
Update: Iraq atrocities, medical
professionals, and prisoner data
Update: Iraq atrocities, medical
professionals, and prisoner data
08/20/2004 12:33 PMXeni Jardin: Following up on
this previous BoingBoing post, reader
Damo says,
A related editorial by Robert Jay Lifton entitled "Doctors
and Torture" appeared in a recent issue of the New England Journal
of Medicine, the world's preeminent medical journal. In one
passage, Lifton describes how military interrogators were given access
to detainees' medical records, which were then used as tools in the
interrogation process. He also discusses how doctors "brought a
medical component to what I call an 'atrocity-producing
situation...'"
LinkThe administration and its Republican
allies have settled on a way to deflect
attention from the torture of prisoners
at Abu Ghraib
The administration and its Republican
allies have settled on a way to deflect
attention from the torture of prisoners
at Abu Ghraib
05/13/2004 05:05 AMan absurd tantrum-cum-editorial like this one: .. Meanwhile,
Republican's spin .. NY
Times
nytimes.com/2004/05/12/opinion/12WED1.html?hp
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BRS Media Announces iDotz.Net to offer
.MD Domain Names via Dotz.MD - Unique
Internet Address for Doctors, Medical
Professionals and the Healthcare
Community!
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.MD Domain Names via Dotz.MD - Unique
Internet Address for Doctors, Medical
Professionals and the Healthcare
Community!
06/25/2004 02:08 AMBRS Media, an e-commerce firm that specializes in assisting multimedia
web sites build and brand on the power of the Web, announced today the
addition of .MD domain names to iDotz.Net a full service multi-domain
registrar service. [PRWEB Jun 25, 2004]
Complicit
Complicit
06/24/2004 01:00 PMAP story ..
released
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Torture and Rumors of Torture: Archive
Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal
Torture and Rumors of Torture: Archive
Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal
06/12/2004 04:45 AMSeymour Hersh Talks of Child Torture, Looks Frightened .. The scariest
part .. getting E-mail .. How low? ..
Click
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"the President of the United States is
not bound by laws banning the use of
torture and anyone he orders to torture
another could not be prosecuted"
"the President of the United States is
not bound by laws banning the use of
torture and anyone he orders to torture
another could not be prosecuted"
06/08/2004 08:23 PMThieves Fall Out in the Bush
Administration Over American Torture in
Saddam's Torture Chambers, But It
Happened at Gitmo and in Afghanistan
Too. Don't Kid Yourself. 5/6
Thieves Fall Out in the Bush
Administration Over American Torture in
Saddam's Torture Chambers, But It
Happened at Gitmo and in Afghanistan
Too. Don't Kid Yourself. 5/6
05/06/2004 10:04 AMBush Privately Chides Rumsfeld (washingtonpost.com) .. The Washington
Post
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Beiks' Medical Dictionary for Windows
Mobile Smartphone Wins Handango "Best
Medical Application" Award
Beiks' Medical Dictionary for Windows
Mobile Smartphone Wins Handango "Best
Medical Application" Award
07/16/2004 03:06 AMBeiks LLC is proud to announce that its Medical Dictionary for Windows
Mobile(r) Smartphone has been named as the winner of Handango’s “Best
Medical Application” award in its annual Handango Champion awards, the
second consecutive year it has won such an award. [PRWEB Jul 16,
2004]
Hansen Medical Acquires endoVia Medical;
Acquisition to Fortify Intellectual
Property in Support of Hansen's C
Hansen Medical Acquires endoVia Medical;
Acquisition to Fortify Intellectual
Property in Support of Hansen's C
04/14/2005 10:27 AMBusiness Wire UK Apr 14 2005 1:41PM GMT
The Medical Minute: Internet medical
searches -- Got information?
The Medical Minute: Internet medical
searches -- Got information?
07/23/2004 07:47 PMPenn State Live Jul 24 2004 0:13AM GMT
More Appalling Iraqi Torture Photos
Emerge. Impeachment Now! It Won't Happen
But It Should. America is Disgraced and
an Islamic Backlash for the Bush Cartel
Corporate Culture of Torture and
Humiliation Threatens Our National
Security. 5/6
More Appalling Iraqi Torture Photos
Emerge. Impeachment Now! It Won't Happen
But It Should. America is Disgraced and
an Islamic Backlash for the Bush Cartel
Corporate Culture of Torture and
Humiliation Threatens Our National
Security. 5/6
05/06/2004 04:44 AMwashingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5623-2004May5.html
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Torture and Truth and The Logic of
Torture
Torture and Truth and The Logic of
Torture
06/04/2004 03:58 PM
Torture and Truth
and
The
Logic of Torture--Mark Danner writes about
Article 15-6
Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade (The Taguba
Report) and
Report of the International Committee of the Red
Cross (ICRC) on the Treatment by the Coalition Forces of Prisoners of
War and Other Protected Persons by the Geneva Conventions in Iraq
During Arrest, Internment and Interrogation in the former and
concludes thusly in the latter:
Behind the exotic
brutality so painstakingly recorded in Abu Ghraib, and the multiple
tangled plotlines that will be teased out in the coming weeks and
months about responsibility, knowledge, and culpability, lies a simple
truth, well known but not yet publicly admitted in Washington: that
since the attacks of September 11, 2001, officials of the United
States, at various locations around the world, from Bagram in
Afghanistan to Guantanamo in Cuba to Abu Ghraib in Iraq, have been
torturing prisoners. (More Within) The Abu Ghraib Prison Photos - It's the
"liberation" of the Iraqi people . These
are just some of the photos that led to
an investigation into conditions at the
Abu Ghraib prison, now run by the
occupation authorities, as revealed in a
shocking report br
The Abu Ghraib Prison Photos - It's the
"liberation" of the Iraqi people . These
are just some of the photos that led to
an investigation into conditions at the
Abu Ghraib prison, now run by the
occupation authorities, as revealed in a
shocking report br
05/03/2004 09:26 AMalbasrah.net/images/iraqi-pow/iraqi-pow
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"The Abu Ghraib Prison Photos - It's the
"liberation" of the Iraqi people . These
are just some of the photos that led to
an investigation into conditions at the
Abu Ghraib prison, now run by the
occupation authorities, as revealed in a
shocking report..."
"The Abu Ghraib Prison Photos - It's the
"liberation" of the Iraqi people . These
are just some of the photos that led to
an investigation into conditions at the
Abu Ghraib prison, now run by the
occupation authorities, as revealed in a
shocking report..."
05/03/2004 03:25 PMMedical Reference For Non-Medical
Librarians
Medical Reference For Non-Medical
Librarians
11/02/2003 09:46 AMMedical Reference For Non-Medical Librarians http://de
nison.uchsc.edu/outreach/medbib3.htm#.docdelAn excellent
reference resource for non-medcial librarians received from the
Virtual Private Library's
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For Professionals Only
For Professionals Only
07/21/2004 01:07 AMThe
s
wing in the alley.
IT professionals: Uncle Sam wants you!
IT professionals: Uncle Sam wants you!
06/15/2002 12:22 AMCNET Jun 14 2002 11:13PM ET
Only professionals can speak?
Only professionals can speak?
03/14/2005 06:21 PMIn a series of bizarre events,
Apple has sued a bunch of bloggers for
releasing information about their upcoming products. The thing is, a
journalist is protected by the law, so that they don't have to reveal
their sources, but Apple has managed to convince a judge that a
blogger is not a journalist, and therefore must reveal their sources.
Dan Gillmor writes about this in depth,
being a blogger and a professional journalist. He has some quite
excellent points, I recommend that you read it. An interesting piece
of information is also this article from CNET that suggests
that in the future, blogging and other form of citizenship journalism
might be subject to FCE regulation in the U.S., due to the fact that
linking to a political campaign might be considered official support,
and therefore subject to the same regulations as all monetary support.
I think this discussion will happen also in Finland in the near
future. An unregulated internet where anyone can say
anything they like is a horror to anyone in power. It's quite
likely that also over here there will eventually be attempts to limit
freedom of speech online - our very own Minister of Culture, Ms.
Karpela, is already trying to circumvent the relevant laws to make sure
that "filth" (as defined by your average geek writing a
crappy program, owned by a corporation with commercial interests, and
supervised by your average alarmist Christian) would be censored from
the Internet.
All this talk about censorship and regulation makes my head ache.
It won't work - get over it already. Embrace the change: the winners
will be found in the crowd that accepts this first.
The alternate is that only professional, accredited writers have a
freedom to speak.
Update: The FEC article has been shot down by representatives of
FEC. And a good thing, too. I guess it shows that politicians
will have to be even more careful about what they say, lest the
blogger horde misinterpret them. However, I think in general it's
good to have public review of important decisions - blogs have a way
of turning legalese into something human-readable. Perhaps it is not
always right yet, but it's getting more so.
Update2: Blogger Garrett M. Graff has
been admitted into a White House news briefing,
says CNN. Just as an interesting data point...
Update3: Kari Haakana has asked the Finnish Journalist Union,
and got a response
confirming that in Finland the right not to reveal your sources
extends to any kind of online publishing, including bloggers.
Amateurs and Professionals
Amateurs and Professionals
07/18/2004 12:16 AMHerewith a brief photo-essay on the issue...
Amateurs vs Professionals
Amateurs vs Professionals
03/22/2005 03:45 PM
In yesterday's discussion and in Charles Leadbeater's discussion
the day before, there was a lot of talk about the rights of amateurs,
the "pro-am revolution" and other arguments about how amateur content
and creativity was important. I described how in the blogging world,
it's mostly the people who create content who "pay" in contrast to the
professional content world where it is the creator who gets paid. I
talked about how Creative Commons was really helpful for amateurs who
were more passionate about having their works widely accessible than
making money. This is not to say that Creative Commons isn't useful
for other things of course.
There was a bit of slippage in the discussion in the afternoon when
several people pointed out that maybe I was suggesting that amateurs
shouldn't/couldn't become professionals. The point, if I understood it
correctly, assumed that most amateurs wanted to be professionals and
that somehow amateurs were proto-professionals or professional
wannabes. At least some of them.
I think this is a mischaracterization and maybe a reason to dump
the word "amateur". I think that in the case of many amateurs such as
many bloggers, Wikipedians and most open source developers, the
amateurs are happy being amateurs and don't feel that they are in any
way inferior to their professional counterparts. Many of the heads of
open source projects have a day job, but probably believe that they
are superior to comparable professionals at Microsoft or other
software companies. I doubt that many Wikipedians wish that they could
get paid for what they do. There are very few people who prefer
professional sex to amateur sex. (I think I got this example from
Steve Weber's book.)
My sister pointed this out to me last week by IM as well. I think
the answer lies in the mode of production. Money creates a power
relationship between the payer and the payee. I think cases where the
production is happening in some sort of enterprise or a "firm" where
having a manager and having access to resources allows production to
be more efficiently, financial relationships and "professionalism"
seem to "feel OK." On the other hand, when working in what Yochai
Benkler calls "commons-based peer-production," the "professionalism"
is replaced by amateur passion as a primary driver.
I pointed out several times yesterday that I don't want to impinge
on the rights of professionals, but I believe that monopolistic
professional organizations such as rights collection agencies, the
Hollywood lobbies and Microsoft are hurting the ability for amateur
artists from participating by creating technology and legislation that
focuses exclusively on protection instead of the sharing of
creativity. I think it is the role of government to call into question
the practices of these monopolies which are the unfortunately
byproduct of an unchecked free market economy and prevent the passing
of legislature that increases the power of these monopolies such as
software patents and extension of copyright terms. Instead, they
should be focusing on activities that make it more difficult for such
monopolies to form such as focusing on open standards and open source
and whenever possible, preventing proprietary standards from being
funded by public funds.
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was done of IT professionals and their
musical tastes
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musical tastes
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Professionals
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Professionals
09/22/2004 06:36 AMInvestors Business Daily Sep 22 2004 10:56AM GMT
Sun axes core support professionals
Sun axes core support professionals
06/30/2004 06:23 AMTie a BluePrint ribbon
Communications Between Technical
Professionals And Their Managers
Communications Between Technical
Professionals And Their Managers
10/28/2003 11:06 PM
As a manager in charge of technical professionals, I have
learned that managing projects with multiple team members requires
certain people skills, as well as technical skills. In the world of
management, there are many skills required when it comes to the
management of people. These skills, and how you apply them, vary
depending on the type of business you are in, as well as the type of
people whom you manage.
High-tech professionals look south
High-tech professionals look south
08/06/2004 02:24 AMTaipei Times Online Aug 6 2004 6:51AM GMT
ResumeVault - Tools for Hiring
Professionals
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What keeps information security
professionals up at night?
What keeps information security
professionals up at night?
01/26/2004 04:12 PMWeb Exclusive: Professionals, Publishing
for the Public
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for the Public
04/19/2004 05:32 AM If it's true that markets are conversations, business blogs might
help corporate conversations scale globally.
ExtremeTech - Deep technology for
enthusiasts and professionals
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enthusiasts and professionals
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ComputerJobs.com® Launches New Online
Community for IT Professionals
ComputerJobs.com® Launches New Online
Community for IT Professionals
04/08/2005 04:55 AMComputerJobs.com has launched a new online community where IT
professionals can discuss their careers, technology, current events
and more. [PRWEB Apr 8, 2005]
ComputerJobs.com(R) Launches New Online
Community For IT Professionals
ComputerJobs.com(R) Launches New Online
Community For IT Professionals
04/07/2005 10:32 AMTechlinks.net - Thu Apr 7, 12:44 pm GMT
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
v1.2.1 (for IT Professionals)
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v1.2.1 (for IT Professionals)
08/16/2004 06:29 PMITV Alliance Launches Certification for
Television Professionals
ITV Alliance Launches Certification for
Television Professionals
09/02/2004 02:06 AMIndustry trade group to provide accredited training and professional
development services to interactive television community;
DigitalMentors named first curriculum development partner [PRWEB Sep
2, 2004]
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