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HUMAN RIGHTS Volume 351:415-416 July 29, 2004 Number 5 Next

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There is increasing evidence that U.S. doctors, nurses, and medics have been complicit in torture and other illegal procedures in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. Such medical complicity suggests still another disturbing dimension of this broadening scandal.

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We know that medical personnel have failed to report to higher authorities wounds that were clearly caused by torture and that they have neglected to take steps to interrupt this torture. In addition, they have turned over prisoners' medical records to interrogators who could use them to exploit the prisoners' weaknesses or . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

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