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Recorded presentation

Steven H. Miles, Center for Bioethics/Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, N504 Boynton, 410 Church St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, 612 624 9440, miles001@umn.edu and George Annas, JD, MPH, Health Law Dept., Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany St., Boston, MA 02118-2307.

This panel will discuss the implications of the human rights abuses in United States prisons for changing the health care and public conditions in prisons world wide. Dr. Steven Miles will review medical involvement in interrogations, recording of torture related deaths, and in the oversight and maintenance of medical and sanitation systems. Dr. Michael Grodin will review issues of medical ethics pertaining to force feeding of prisoners on hunger strikes Dr. George Annas will address the matters pertaining to the legitimacy of appeals to the Geneva Conventions, the United Nations Priniciples of Medical Ethics, the Convention Against Torture, and Standard Minimum Rules for Prisons.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the new health issues raised by human rights abuses in US military prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.
• Analyze the implications of these abuses for future advocacy for international prison health care.

Keywords: Human Rights, Prisoners Health Care

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No

Recorded presentation