EXPERIMENTS
IN TORTURE:
Evidence of Human Subject
Research and Experimentation
in the “Enhanced” Interrogation Program
A White Paper by
Physicians for Human Rights
June 2010
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psychological and physical torture by US personnel against
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Authors &
Acknowledgements
The lead author for this report is Nathaniel Raymond,
Director of the Campaign Against Torture/Campaign for
Accountability at Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). The
lead medical author is Scott Allen, MD, Co-Director of the
Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights at Brown
University and Medical Advisor to PHR. They were joined
in writing the report by Vincent Iacopino, MD, PhD, PHR
Senior Medical Advisor; Allen Keller, MD, Bellevue/NYU
Program for Survivors of Torture; Stephen Soldz, PhD,
President-elect of Psychologists for Social Responsibility
and Director of the Center for Research, Evaluation and
Program Development at the Boston Graduate School of
Psychoanaly