Dr. Steven H. Miles is the author of Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity and the War on Terror (Random House 2006). Miles, an expert in medical ethics, human rights, and international health care, is professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School and a faculty member of its Center for Bioethics. His book explores the role of military physicians in aiding and abetting abuse and torture at U.S. detention facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantamano. Why focus on the role of doctors in torture and abuse? I've done a lot of international relief work with international NGOs [non-governmental organizations], where I've been up to my eyeballs in human rights abuses. When the pictures from Abu Ghraib came out, it was clear that this was more than a matter of a few bad apples. You don't have torture of this kind without a command that authorizes it. The question then was why the doctors hadn't blown the whistle. I wrote an article for the medical journal Lancet...