Update: Iraq atrocities, medical professionals, and prisoner data

By at 9:04 am Friday, Aug 20

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...'"
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