Steven H. Miles is an American
doctor
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, author, and professor of
medicine
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who has published on ethically topics relating to
medicine
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and the use of
torture
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Miles is a practicing physician and Professor of Medicine at the
University of Minnesota Medical School
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The University of Minnesota Medical School is also part of one of ...
[
] and is a member of its Center for Bioethics. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanistics. Miles is a fellow of the
Hastings Center
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, an independent bioethics research institution.
Miles is the author of two books on medical ethics, one focusing on the
Hippocratic Oath, the other on physicians and torture.
Selected bibliography
* Steven H. Miles, The Hippocratic Oath and the Ethics of Medicine,
Oxford University Press
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, 2004
* Steven H. Miles, Oath Betrayed: America's Torture Doctors,
University of California Press
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, April 20, 2009, .
Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror
Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror - Democracy Now! - 30 de junho de 2006
See also
* Lists of books
*Lists of authors
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*Bioethics
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Living people
Physicians from Minnesota
University of Minnesota faculty
Hastings Center Fellows
Year of birth missing (living people)
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