Garieka Godfrey at The Cougar's Byte reports:
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012, the Human Rights Institute at Kean University will present the premiere of the film, Doctors of the Dark Side from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the New Jersey Center for Science, Technology, and Mathematics [STEM] building auditorium.
The film exposes the role that physicians and psychologists played in devising, supervising, and covering up the torture of detainees in United States controlled military prisons. It contains interviews of doctors, psychologists, military officers, former detainees, and attorneys to tell the stories of four detainees and how significant health care professionals have been in the physical and psychological torture of detainees.
According to the website for Physicians for Human Rights, "Doctors of the Dark Side gives a human face to an issue that many do not want to confront: medical professionals implicitly or explicitly authorized the torture that occurred at Guantanamo, including practices such as isolation, sleep deprivation, forced nakedness, severe humiliation and degradation, and sensory deprivation." The film is earning great reviews at initial screenings, with Dr. Martha Davis as producer/ http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifdirector, who spent four years investigating the controversy and produced the award-winning documentary. The team includes Oscar-winners Mark Jonathan Harris, who wrote the documentary; Mercedes Ruehl as the narrator; Emmy-winner and director of photography, Lisa Rinzler; and editor, M. Trevino.
Following the film, Dr. Davis -- along with a panel of Kean faculty -- will discuss the implications of the message of the film. Dr. Denis Klein, director of the M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide studies; Dr. Jennifer Lerner of the Psychology Department program in clinical and school psychology,; and Dr. Virginia Fitzsimons of the department of nursing will be on the panel.
To view a preview of the film visit http://www.doctorsofthedarkside.com/. For more information, please contact Janine Rivera at rivejani@kean.edu.
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