Surviving Torture
Open Access
- 1 July 2004
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 351 (1) , 5-7
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp048141
Abstract
The shocking, unfiltered images from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq have focused the world's attention on the plight of torture survivors. Physicians in the United States are confronted as never before with the need to identify and treat the physical and psychological sequelae of extreme violence and torture. Yet this is not a new role for medical practitioners. More than 45 countries are currently suffering from the destruction caused by mass violence.1 The 20th century has been called the “refugee century,” with tens of millions of people violently displaced from their homes. Millions of these people have resettled in the United States, and refugees, asylum seekers, and illegal immigrants now commonly enter our health care institutions.2Keywords
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