Torture is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 medical journal

Medical journal

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 on rehabilitation of torture

Torture

Torture is the act of inflicting severe pain as a means of punishment, revenge, forcing information or a confession, or simply as an act of cruelty. Throughout history, torture has often been used as a method of political re-education, interrogation, punishment, and coercion...

 victims and prevention of torture, published by the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims

International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims

The International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims , is an independent, international health professional organisation that promotes and supports the rehabilitation of torture victims and works for the prevention of torture worldwide....

, indexed in MEDLINE

MEDLINE

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The focus of the journal is biomedicine, psychology, and rehabilitation, but also on epidemiology, social sciences, and other disciplines related to torture.

The journal has been published since 1991 as Torture - Quarterly Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture, and was relaunched as Torture in 2004.

Notable articles

Important contributions include:

• Quiroga, J
  José Quiroga
  On Tuesday, September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet staged a brutal military coup against Chilean President Salvador Allende. Inside the government palace, Dr. Jose Quiroga, a cardiologist and Allende’s physician, watched as soldiers went from room to room attacking supporters of Allende...
  
  , Jaranson, J (2005). "Politically-motivated torture and its survivors: a desk study review of the literature".