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I am a retired geriatrician and Professor emeritus of medicine and bioethics at the University of Minnesota. My diverse career has included working in refugee camps, public hospitals, and nursing homes.
I spent more than a decade studying and testifying against doctors who torture for their governments. I wrote two non-fiction books and one novel based on those experiences.
Since retiring, I have become a Master Gardener. My latest book is on gardening, The Tao Te Ching, and the Anthropocene.

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Steven H. Miles I was hitchhiking home from college in 1971. A nice sedan pulled up; even odder a 40 year old woman was driving and she was alone in the car. She appe…moreI was hitchhiking home from college in 1971. A nice sedan pulled up; even odder a 40 year old woman was driving and she was alone in the car. She appeared quite shaken. "I've just come from an antique sale at the Assembly of the Rebekahs," she said. "It was the strangest thing. I saw an wooden oblong box about 2 and a half feet long. It was half way under a display table. I kneeled down to see what it contained. i opened it and saw the skeleton of a young child, dressed in decaying clothes lying in a bed of decayed linen.
I started, stood up and moved away. An old woman saw me. She was a member of the Assembly. She pushed the box under the table with her foot.
I was so startled that I left. I picked you up because I just had to talk to someone about it. It makes no sense."(less)

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Steven H. Miles The body, found on Wednesday morning, was of a man in a tuxedo who had two deep punctures on his neck and ice under the crystal of his watch whose han…moreThe body, found on Wednesday morning, was of a man in a tuxedo who had two deep punctures on his neck and ice under the crystal of his watch whose hands said 12:00. He had willed his collection of original print's of Lon Chaney films to his daughter if he died before 10/31 (Tuesday) and to his son if he died on November 1 or later. (less)

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	Oath Betrayed: America's Torture Doctors 3.90 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2006 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hippocratic Oath and the Ethics of Medicine 3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Torture Doctors: Human Rights Crimes and the Road to Justice 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Leopard's Furies 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Tao for the Anthropocene it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Protocols for Elective Use of Life-Sustaining Treatments: A Design Guide by Steven H. Miles (Goodreads Author), Carlos F. Gomez 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Oddysey Emily Wilson tr

This is the fourth and best Odyssey I have read. The ones in high school and college were turgid academic poems, stiff and formal.
Fagles was famous for his more relaxed colloquial style. But even Fagles focused on telling the text rather than on who it was told to. His translation, though clearer, is still burdened by academic pretensions and prolixities.
Wilson, notably the only woman, has done tw Read more of this blog post »

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