Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Doctors of the dark side [videorecording] / producer/director, Martha Davis ; written by Mark Jonathan Harris.

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Shelter Island, c2013.

Description:

1 videodisc (73 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

This film is the first feature-length documentary about how health care professionals actively implemented and covered up the tortures in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and the CIA Black Sites. The film shows how the torture of detainees could not continue without the assistance of these American doctors. The little-known story is told by military, legal and medical experts and portrayed through staged demonstrations as spelled out in declassified government documents.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Abu Ghraib Prison.

Prisoners of war -- Medical care -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Medical personnel -- Professional ethics -- United States.

Medicine, Military -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Prisoners of war -- Abuse of -- Iraq.

Prisoners of war -- Abuse of -- Afghanistan.

Prisoners of war -- Abuse of -- Cuba.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Moral and ethical aspects.