Medical education should include human rights component

doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7474.1103

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Helen Bygrave, general practitioner (member@helenbygrave.wanadoo.co.uk)

Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire WD5 0BE

EDITOR—Two important issues emerge from the article by Forrest and Barrett on humanitarian medicine.1

Firstly, the use of the terms “moderate physical pressure” or “torture lite” risks euphemising torture into acceptability. In 1976 the European Commission on Human Rights held that certain techniques used by the British security forces in …