How is it possible? What are the personal, professional and political contexts that allow physicians to use their skills to torture and kill rather than heal? What are the psychological characteristics and the social, cultural and political factors that predispose physicians to participate in human rights abuses? What can be done to recognize at-risk situations and attempt to provide corrective...

The United Nations Committee against Torture recommends systematic torture screening throughout the asylum process. goal of this study is to evaluate introduction a structured questionnaire, coding for according definition from Convention Against (UNCAT). This now an integrated part medical reception newly arrived seekers
 was carried through during 2 years period as routine health screeni...

Torture by its very nature creates distress in part related to the intentionality of the trauma inflicted. Consequently, it is necessary for clinicians to address many of the existential concerns that arise in the course of treatment. Often in clinical training, issues of spirituality are deferred to spiritual caregivers. It is important when working with torture survivors to consider the myria...

A study was carried out using the case notes of all Sierra Leoneans referred to the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture between 1996 and 1998 for medical reports. Data were abstracted on the type and extent of torture reported, and the cases were followed up to the present day to ascertain how long the United Kingdom asylum and immigration process had taken to process their cl...

[Purpose] This study aimed to identify the impact of physiotherapy using complex manual therapy as a part of an integrated treatment for sequelae in the musculoskeletal system of torture survivors. [Subjects] This study reviewed 30 male torture survivors presenting with chronic low back pain. They were randomly selected and divided into two groups: an experimental group and a control group. [Me...

Anyone who has been tortured remains tortured. Anyone who has suffered torture will never again be at ease in the world, the abomination of the annihilation is never extinguished. Faith in humanity, already cracked with the first slap in the face, then demolished by torture, is never acquired again. Torture, a word adeptly derived from the Latin " to twist, " is the dirty little secret of moder...

BACKGROUND Clinical forensic examinations of alleged torture victims have been performed by forensic pathologists at the University of Copenhagen since 1995. In 13.2%/33 of these cases the examinations were supplemented by a forensic odontological clinical examination. In this study the forensic odontological cases from the years 1997-2011 are presented and discussed. METHODS This study inclu...