Speaking about Torture
Title | Speaking about Torture PDF eBook |
Author | Julie A. Carlson |
Publisher | Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | 374 |
Release | 2012-09-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0823242242 |
This collection explores torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. It contends that these disciplines advance the discussion and eradication of torture by speaking about it in terms cognizant of the assaults on truth, memory, subjectivity, and language that the humanities theorize and that experience of torture perpetuates.
Why Torture Doesn’t Work
Title | Why Torture Doesn’t Work PDF eBook |
Author | Shane O'Mara |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 333 |
Release | 2015-11-30 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0674743903 |
Besides being cruel and inhumane, torture does not work the way torturers assume it does. As Shane O’Mara’s account of the neuroscience of suffering reveals, extreme stress creates profound problems for memory, mood, and thinking, and sufferers predictably produce information that is deeply unreliable, or even counterproductive and dangerous.
John Dewey Between Pragmatism and Constructivism
Title | John Dewey Between Pragmatism and Constructivism PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Ann Carlson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 374 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Torture in literature |
ISBN | 9780823246229 |
This collection of essays take up the urgent issue of torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. The book speaks about the practice in an effort to challenge the surprisingly widespread acceptance of state-sanctioned torture among Americans.
Hard Measures
Title | Hard Measures PDF eBook |
Author | Jose A. Rodriguez |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 294 |
Release | 2013-04-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 145166348X |
An explosive memoir about the creation and implementation of the controversial Enhanced Interrogation Techniques by the former Chief Operations Officer for the CIA's Counterterrorism Center.
How to Justify Torture
Title | How to Justify Torture PDF eBook |
Author | Alex Adams |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019-09-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1912248581 |
From Batman Begins to Tom Clancy, How to Justify Torture shows how contemporary culture creates simplified narratives about good guy torturers and bad guy victims, how dangerous this is politically, and what we can do to challenge it. If there was a bomb hidden somewhere in a major city, and you had the person responsible in your custody, would you torture them to get the information needed to stop the bomb exploding, preventing a devastating terrorist attack and saving thousands of lives? This is the ticking bomb scenario -- a thought experiment designed to demonstrate that torture can be justified. In How to Justify Torture, cultural critic Alex Adams examines the ticking bomb scenario in-depth, looking at the ways it is presented in films, novels, and TV shows -- from Batman Begins and Dirty Harry to French military thrillers and home invasion narratives. By critiquing its argument step by step, this short, provocative book reminds us that, despite what the ticking bomb scenario will have us believe, torture can never be justified.
The Torture Papers
Title | The Torture Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Karen J. Greenberg |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 1306 |
Release | 2005-01-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521853248 |
Documents US Government attempts to justify torture techniques and coercive interrogation practices in ongoing hostilities.
At the Side of Torture Survivors
Title | At the Side of Torture Survivors PDF eBook |
Author | Sepp Graessner |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 2001-03-22 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9780801866272 |
"An outstanding collection that brings an extraordinary international perspective to the growing literature on the treatment of the survivors of torture." -- New England Journal of Medicine