The men were veterans of the Army unit responsible for the incident depicted in a military video released by Wikileaks under the title “Collateral Murder,” which showed soldiers in a helicopter shooting people in a Baghdad neighborhood. StieberJ.McCordE., “An Open Letter of Reconciliation & Responsibility to the Iraqi People,”Iraq Veterans Against the War Newsletter, April 15 2010, available at <http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5966/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2724> (last visited November 13, 2010).
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AnnasG. J., “Military Medical Ethics – Physician First, Last, Always,”New England Journal of Medicine359, no. 11 (2008): 1087–1090; MorenoJ., “Embracing Military Medical Ethics,”American Journal of Bioethics8, no. 2 (2008): 1–2; MorenoJ. D., “Bioethics and the National Security State,”Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics32, no. 2 (2004): 198–208.
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Even the American government's use of the term “detainee” rather than “prisoner-of-war” raised ethical questions. On American military prisons, see GourevitchP.MorrisE., Standard Operating Procedure (New York: Penguin Press, 2008); and ShephardM., Guantanamo's Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr (Mississauga, Ontario: John Wiley & Sons Canada, 2008).
EdneyD., guest speaker, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, January 7, 2010. See also Secrecy, a film directed by Peter Galison and Robb Moss (Redacted Pictures, 2008).
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Physicians for Human Rights, “Experiments in Torture: Human Subject Research and Evidence of Experimentation in the ‘Enhance’ Interrogation Program,” June 7, 2010, available at <physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/news-2010-06-07.html> (last visited November 10, 2010).
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On war, militarization and health, see SmithS. L., Japanese American Midwives: Culture, Community, and Health Politics, 1880–1950 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005), chapter 5; and HarrisonM., “The Medicalization of War – the Militarization of Medicine,”Social History of Medicine9, no. 2 (1996): 267–76. On militarization and society, see McEnaneyL., Civil Defense Begins at Home: Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000); and SherryM. S., In the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930s (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995).
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See, for example, the award-winning study by SnowdenF., The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900–1962 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006).
