tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048559001654820158.post8717123314700638822..comments2023-10-21T01:41:25.251-07:00Comments on Invictus: April 30, 2004... and now where are we?Valtinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07427976389098964420noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048559001654820158.post-22310225804896936192008-05-16T16:46:00.000-07:002008-05-16T16:46:00.000-07:00You are correct (again, I might add). My colleague...You are correct (again, I might add). My colleague Stephen Soldz has been writing a lot about this lately (see his blog, Psyche, Science and Society). I should give my own contribution on this subject. It definitely is connected to the collaboration issue with torture, and draws even a larger picture of the complicity of the healing professions with state authoritarian procedures and institutions.Valtinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07427976389098964420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048559001654820158.post-77383315483020500712008-05-15T08:14:00.000-07:002008-05-15T08:14:00.000-07:00Along that line, I have been troubled by the actio...Along that line, I have been troubled by the actions of nurses and physicians who worked as employees for the Department of Immigration Health Services (what a benign sounding name for such a warped function). The Priest/Goldstein reportage demonstrated evidence that they forcibly administered psychotropic and anti-anxiety medications against the will of detainees with no medical indications for them. I think that the US is developing a new cadre of Josef Mengeles, and it is frightening. The post where I'm trying to untangle the laws, regulations and oversight, as well as to chronicle the evidence is at my name.<BR/><BR/>But at any rate, licensed healthcare providers are being used systematically, to commit acts of torture and abuse on people, and they are committing human rights violations and are breaking laws as well as ethics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com