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Astronomy Man on the Moon 2 RESEARCH AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY 2009 www.bu.EDU/ RESEARCH 3 Research War BY KARINE AbALYAN The Wide-Ranging Repercussions of War In the past eight years, the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the larger “war on terror” have become such a persistent part of the national cognizance that, in some ways, these conflicts have also exhausted our attention and begun to fade from the public eye. But at Boston University, faculty members in a range of disciplines—including medicine, public health, law, theology, social work, and international relations—are closely examining these conflicts to determine how military organizations, the U.S. government, and the public at large might be better equipped to address war's ethical, legal, and psychological impact. 4 RESEARCH AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY 2009 www.bu.EDU/ RESEARCH 5 Research War “The lawyers needed the doctors to carry out the torture,” says Annas, whose forthcoming book, Worst Case Bioethics, explores the dan- gers of using worst-case scenarios to make policy. “And I think the doctors needed the lawyers to tell them they were immune from war crimes pros- ecution if they participated in them.” His goal is to reverse this thinking and to make clear “that a physician does not escape from medical ethics obligations by putting on a uniform.” To do so, he proposes that doctors, lawyers, and military officers work together to protect human rights, strengthen democracy, and lift the threat of unethical behavior toward U.S. troops abroad. Faith's First Responders To this end, Annas and a fellow professor of health law, bioethics, and human rights, physician Michael Grodin, organized a series of military Military chaplains, who are exempt from documenting medical ethics workshops to give government leaders and high-ranking soldier visits, are often more likely than clinicians to military physicians the opportunity to discuss issues of medical ethics receive requests for help from service members expe- with human rights advocates, law professors, and medical ethics scholars, riencing symptoms of trauma. But unlike clinicians and other health professionals, chaplains are rarely offered as well as retired military physicians. the training they need to administer assistance. After more than a year of workshops, the Assistant Secretary of Seeing a need, Shelly Rambo, an assistant pro- Defense for Health Affairs joined these efforts, and the Department of fessor of theology, and Ellen DeVoe, an associate Defense agreed to fund a workshop on military medical ethics at the professor of social work, have partnered with military Institute of Medicine in fall 2008. The workshops also earned Annas an chaplains to design resources and coursework to invitation to speak at the annual meeting of the Department of Defense’s help chaplains-in-training address the spiritual and Medical Health Services. His presentation focused on the problem of break- religious implications of trauma. These resources First, do no harm: medical ethics must come before the mission for military physicians, ing hunger strikes at Guantanamo—a practice that he argues was used to will combine Rambo’s work on trauma in a religious says George Annas, a professor of health law, bioethics, and human rights. punish, not medically treat, detainees—and was well received by military context with DeVoe’s research on trauma and clinical medical professionals, including Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health practice, offering military chaplains an interdisciplinary Medical Ethics—No Exceptions Affairs, Dr. S. Ward Casscells, who said it prompted him to reconsider physi- approach to thinking about psychological injury. “I think it’s a very logical kind of marriage, if you cians’ participation in attempting to break hunger strikes. All’s not fair in love and war. From the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq to the will, because when people are traumatized, so often In August 2009, Annas and another member of the medical eth- U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, in recent years military physi- what comes up are questions of faith,” says DeVoe. cians have been accused of ignoring medical ethics guidelines set forth in ics workshops are scheduled to address the new ethics subcommittee of “The mental health side of trauma work doesn’t always national and international codes such as the declarations on torture and the Defense Health Board, a body that advises the Secretary of Defense.