(Basic Bioethics.) By Michael L. Gross. 384 pp. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2006. $65 (cloth); $26 (paper). ISBN 978-0-262-07269-4 (cloth); 978-0-262-57226-2 (paper).
The graphic photographs released in 2003 depicting prisonerabuse at Abu Ghraib evoked a swift and strong worldwide responseof shock, dismay, and condemnation and led to multiple investigations,revision of detention and interrogation procedures, and punishmentof military personnel. More recent reports, in this journaland elsewhere, of U.S. military physicians' involvement in thetorture of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Cuba raise criticaland complex questions about the appropriate scope of the activitiesof military physicians. As the first single-author, book-lengthexamination of the roles and responsibilities of physiciansin war, Michael Gross's Bioethics and Armed Conflict is . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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