FIRST, DO NO HARM:

IS THE HIPPOCRATIC INJUNCTION A CASUALTY OF THE
WARS ON TERROR AND CRIME?

When: Tuesday, May 2, 2006 at 7 p.m.

Where: New York City Bar Association, 42 West 44th Street

The panel will explore the legal and ethical implications of the role of physicians in government activities, such as executions and the interrogation of detainees and terror suspects. In recent months the issue of the role of physicians in executions has become front-page news as a result of legal challenges to lethal injections in California , North Carolina and elsewhere. This controversy raises fundamental questions:

• Is it possible to have a constitutionally valid method of execution without the participation of doctors?
• Should preservation of the integrity of medical ethics trump the value to society of the death penalty?

These issues, and others raised in challenges to the enabling role of physicians in Guantanamo Bay and other military facilities, will be addressed by experts in this timely program.

Moderator :

ARTHUR ZITRIN, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, New York University School of Medicine

Speakers :

LEON EISENBERG, M.D., Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School

STEVEN H. MILES, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Bioethics, University of Minnesota

SCOTT M. SULLIVAN, Allen & Overy, LLP

PAUL F. ENZINNA, Baker Botts LLP

About the Association
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (www.nycbar.org) was founded in 1870, and since then has been dedicated to maintaining the high ethical standards of the profession, promoting reform of the law, and providing service to the profession and the public.

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