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The first unit gives an overview of current realities and issues regarding torture and the involvement of doctors, giving us a sense of the challenges facing the medical profession. In this chapter I focus on global torture. To grasp the range of abusive tactics found in countries around the world, I look at six cases. Each is a picture of brutality; together they testify to a moral failure in terms of human rights.
I was never threatened with death, in fact I was told that they would not allow me to die, but that I would be brought to the “verge of death and back again.”
—Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
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Teays, W. (2019). Global Torture. In: Doctors and Torture. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 80. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22517-9_4
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