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Skin torture.

Abstract

The inhumanity of human beings to other human beings has transcended all continents and every civilization from time immemorial. No amount of prohibitions, be they religious or legal edicts, has prevented cruel and inhuman punishment inflicted by human beings on others to subjugate them. Torture continues to be a common method to subdue and intimidate people. The forms of bodily harm can take any number of ways, some of which might even defy the imagination of any civilized people. We need only to recall the Holocaust and the decimations of thousands in Africa in more recent times.

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Hirak B Routh, Lawrence Charles Parish, Samanta La Sen, Bishwajit Bhowmik. Skin torture.. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clindermatol.2004.09.002

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