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Torture is a particularly horrible crime, and any participation of physicians in torture has always been difficult to comprehend. As General Telford Taylor explained to the American judges at the trial of the Nazi doctors in Nuremberg, Germany (called the "Doctors' Trial"), "To kill, to maim, and to torture is criminal under all modern systems of law . . . yet these [physician] defendants, all of whom were fully able to comprehend the nature of their acts . . . are responsible for wholesale murder and unspeakably cruel tortures."¹ Taylor told the judges that it was the obligation of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Torture

The Rights of Torture Victims

The Geneva Conventions

International and Medical Ethics

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From the Department of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston.

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