On the Other Hand, Condemnation of Physician Involvement in Torture is Beginning

Steve Miles, who has done more to discuss ethics in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay than anyone, notes on MCW-Bioethics that the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American College of Physicians have spoken out forcefully on the McCain amendment concerning among other things the involvement of US health professionals in inappropriate roles in interrogations. He writes though that the AMA has not gone to the mat on this issue, and points for contrast to the AMA 2005 strategic plan to build its brand identity and promote professionalism which is here.
[update] Matt Wynia at AMA, who is nobody's apologist and tells it like it is, replies that the AMA did in fact send letters to the US congress and put together releases on the matter. Miles contends though that the AMA did not push to make the public aware of those efforts. If you are dying to read more of that exchange, which just began, email aderse@post.its.mcw.edu to be added to the MCW-bioethics list serve, sit back, and let the emails begin.