1 FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts USA.
Prehosp Disaster Med. 2013 Dec;28(6):616-24. doi: 10.1017/S1049023X13008868. Epub 2013 Sep 30.
Physicians and other licensed health professionals are involved in force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO), Cuba, the detention center established to hold individuals captured and suspected of being terrorists in the wake of September 11, 2001. The force-feeding of competent hunger strikers violates medical ethics and constitutes medical complicity in torture. Given the failure of civilian and military law to end the practice, the medical profession must exert policy and regulatory pressure to bring the policy and operations of the US Department of Defense into compliance with established ethical standards. Physicians, other health professionals, and organized medicine must appeal to civilian state oversight bodies and federal regulators of medical science to revoke the licenses of health professionals who have committed prisoner abuses at GTMO.
医生和其他持照的卫生专业人员参与了对关塔那摩湾美国海军基地（GTMO）绝食囚犯的强制喂食，该拘留中心是为关押 2001 年 9 月 11 日之后被捕并涉嫌恐怖分子的个人而设立的。对有能力绝食的囚犯进行强制喂食违反了医学伦理，构成了对酷刑的医疗共谋。鉴于民事和军事法律未能终止这一做法，医学界必须施加政策和监管压力，使美国国防部的政策和行动符合既定的道德标准。医生、其他卫生专业人员和有组织的医学必须呼吁民事国家监督机构和联邦医学科学监管机构吊销在 GTMO 虐待囚犯的卫生专业人员的执照。
