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edited by Sepp Graessner, Norbert Gurris, and Christian Pross, translated by Jeremiah Michael Riemer, 241 pp, $46.50, ISBN 0-8018-6627-8, Baltimore, Md, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

JAMA. 2002;288:641.

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At the Side of Torture Survivors narrates the work by the staff of the Berlin Center for the Treatment of Torture Survivors. Therapists at the center rehabilitate refugees seeking asylum in Germany and submit reports to a judicial body, which decides whether to grant asylum. The motivation of creating the treatment center stems from a desire to heal the shadow of atrocities of Nazi Germany and the complicity of German healing professionals. The patients described in this work came from 30 countries and many regions, including the former Yugoslavia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, North Africa, and the former German Democratic Republic.

After the events of September 11, 2001, the book is of special significance. But while those terrorists sought to create public catastrophe, in the case of torture, the purpose is the opposite—to hide torture from sight; for governments condoning torture, to deny its existence. Americans generally think of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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