Medical torture

Medical torture  describes the involvement and sometimes active participation of medical professionals in acts of  torture, either to judge what victims can endure, to apply treatments which will enhance torture, or as torturers in their own right. Medical torture may be called  medical interrogation  if it involves the use of their expert medical knowledge to facilitate  interrogation  or  corporal punishment, in the conduct of torturous  human experimentation  or in providing professional medical sanction and approval for the torture of prisoners. Medical torture also covers torturous scientific (or pseudo-scientific) experimentation upon unwilling human subjects.