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Senator Norm Coleman talked about renewable energy and national security as part of the “Connecting with Government” series sponsored by the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance. |
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In the wake of the unspeakable acts of Nazi doctors during the Holocaust, modern governments adopted a series of international conventions that declared doctors' participation in torture to be unethical. In August 2004, Steven H. Miles, a bioethicist and professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota, reported in the British medical journal The Lancet that in Iraq and Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, doctors were collaborating in the design and implementation of coercive interrogations. “Torture, War, and Medical Ethics” examined this issue in detail as Dr. Miles was joined in conversation by Barbara Frey, international rights advocate and director of the Human Rights Program at the University of Minnesota.
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