From Nuremberg to Guantanamo Bay
Uses of Physicians in the War on Terror
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11020705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sondra S Crosby (0000-0002-1672-5407, Sondra S. Crosby and Gilbert Benavidez are with the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA.), Gilbert Benavidez (Sondra S. Crosby and Gilbert Benavidez are with the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA.) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 36-41 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.2017.304154 |
| PMID | 29161065 |
| OpenAlex | W2770832995 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 10 |
Seventy years after the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial, health professionals and lawyers working together after 9/11 played a critical role in designing, justifying, and carrying out the US state-sponsored torture program in the CIA “Black Sites” and US military detention centers, including Abu Ghraib, Bagram, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. We analyze the similarities between the Nazi doctors and health professionals in the War on Terror and address the question of how it happened that health professionals, including doctors, psychologists, physician assistants, and nurses, acted as agents of the state to utilize their medical and healing skills to cause harm and sanitize barbarous acts, similar to (though not on the scale of) how Nazi doctors were used by the Third Reich
Criminology · Harm · Human rights · International law · Medical emergency · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Nuremberg trials · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Political science · Politics · State (computer science) · Suicide prevention · Torture · War crime · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Torture, Ethics, and Law
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |