The BMA's torture report and afterwards.

Editor's note Sadly, Dr3John Dawson died on the 20th ofDecember 1990. For manyyears Dr Dawson had extensive interest and involvement, via his position at the Bn'tish Medical Association, with a number ofnational and international groups devoted to tackling the problems associated with 'torture and the medical profession'. He was instumental in the production ofthe firstBMA Torture Report and, at the time ofhis death, was working closely with a BMA working party on a further report. The following is a transcript of the talk given by Dr Dawson at the XIX Tromso Seminar in Medicine on Torture and the Medical Profession. Had Dr Dawson lived, he would have submitted a manuscript based on his talk. In the circumstances, it has been decided to submit the transcript with minimal editing.