Medical Ethics and Punishment Story aired: Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Some high-profile ethical choices that doctors have made are in the news today. First, the New York Times reports interrogations of detainees at the military base in Guantanamo Bay were, according to an International Red Cross report, "tantamount to torture." Doctors at the base apparently helped plan these interrogations. And, in the United States, Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher is under fire for signing his first death warrant for an execution scheduled for today, even though Governor Fletcher is a doctor and supposed to "do no harm" under the Hippocratic Oath.
Guests:
Professor Michael Grodin, an expert in medical ethics at Boston University.
