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First, bioethicist Steven Miles discusses the silence of health professionals at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib in a masterful lecture in Sweden, Where Were the Doctors and Nurses at Abu Ghraib?
And psychologist Martha Davis has produced an amazing must-see video -- Interrogation Psychologists: The Making of a Professional Crisis -- on the role of what she calls the National Security Caucus in the American Psychological Association in seeking moneys for the evolving field of "national security psychology," including the specialty of interrogation support, which included the development of torture techniques for the CIA and the Defense Department. The film contains much new information. The film premiered at the conference entitled “The Interrogation and Torture Controversy: Crisis in Psychology” held at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Center on Terrorism in New York City on September 12, 2008.
Unfortunately, neither of these can be embedded here. But definitely go and watch them. More information on these issues is available at my blog, Psyche, Science, and Society, where I regularly cover US torture and the contributions to it of psychologists and other health professionals.
