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Medical Torture Open Access Articles

Medical torture describes the involvement of, or sometimes instigation by, medical personnel in acts of torture, either to guage what victims can endure, to use treatments which may enhance torture, or as torturers in their title”. Torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on an individual for such purposes as obtaining from him or a 3rd person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a 3rd person has committed or is suspected of getting committed.Torture and other human rights abuses have been common throughout history. For many centuries, for instance , judges in France could order torture of prisoners to get information. In the American war deserters were branded, and even today branding could also be a part of a sentence in Iraq. But these abuses have rarely reached public perception and understanding. Asylum seekers reaching the UK from Kurdish Iraq or Bosnia have faced hostile accusations of being “economic refugees,” not deserving of emotional, social, and economic support. Kosovo may have changed that. Increasingly knowledge of abuses is recorded by us all as we watch our television screens. The stories told of torture and of executions were simple, coherent, and compelling—and reinforced by pictures from recent discoveries: the space during a faculty basement and mass graves.    

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