WHAT:
On Tuesday, March 1, the Harvard Medical School Division of Medical Ethics will host a public forum, "Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo: Medical Professionalism, Dual Loyalty, and Human Rights."
This public forum will explore the role of medical military personnel in alleged torture and other violations of human rights in U.S. military facilities at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Medical professionals sometimes find themselves in circumstances of "dual loyalty," where they must choose between responsibility for individuals in need of care and demands placed upon them by the state or other governing entity. Dual loyalty can arise in the military, in prisons, in situations where care is provided to illegal immigrants, in forensic psychiatry, and in a variety of workplaces where institutional interests dominate.
Starting with Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo as case examples, this forum will branch out to broadly explore the problem of dual loyalty and its implications for medical professionalism and human rights.
WHEN:
Tuesday, March 1, 2005
4:00-6:00pm
Reception to follow. Please RSVP to DME@hms.harvard.edu
WHERE:
Harvard Medical School
Tosteson Medical Education Center, Carl Walter Amphitheater
260 Longwood Avenue (2nd Floor)
Boston, MA 02115
WHO:
Speakers:
Steven H. Miles, MD, Professor of Medicine, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota Medical School
Leonard S. Rubenstein, JD, Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights
Robert Jay Lifton, MD, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Moderator:
Mildred Z. Solomon, EdD, Associate Clinical Professor of Social Medicine, Medical Ethics, and Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School; and Vice President, Education Development C
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Contact: Leah Gourley
public_affairs@hms.harvard.edu
617-432-0442
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