The Program on Values in Society hosted an evening of discussion for the Critical Medical Humanities Series:

 

Dr. Steven Miles, MD, Department of Medicine and Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota
"Medical Complicity with Torture: Getting out of Abu-Ghraib"

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
7:00 PM
Kane Hall, Room 110
University of Washington, Seattle Campus

 

Four yeas ago photos from Abu Ghraib prison confirmed that toture was occurring at US run prisons in the war on terror. Since then, we learned that similar abuses occurred throughout a global network of prisons and that these abuses were the result of a high level police that also recruited the assistance of physicians and psychologists. Dr. Miles will review how that policy was made and, more importantly, what must be done to avoid leaving a precedent by which any government can justify torture.

 

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The Program on Values in Society and the Department of Philosophy Co-Sponsored the following lectures:

 

Robert Reich, Stanford

"Ethics, Public Policy, and Philanthropy"

 

Friday, October 24, 2008

3:30 pm

Condon Hall, 109

University of Washington, Seattle Campus

 

 

Thomas Schmidt, Goethe University, Frankfort, Germany

"Religion in the Post-Secular Society: Habermas on Religious Beliefs and their Secular Translation"

 

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

3:30 pm

Condon Hall, 101

University of Washington, Seattle Campus

 

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