| Description |
xvii, 389 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Pennsylvania studies in human rights |
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Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
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| Contents |
Ch. I Torture in Western history -- Reading 1 Torture and truth / Page DuBois -- Reading 2 The torture of Jesus -- Reading 3 Torture and the law of proof / John H. Langbein -- Reading 4 Torture / Edward Peters -- Reading 5 Discipline and punish / Michel Foucault -- Reading 6 "An essay on crimes and punishments" / Cesare Beccaria -- Reading 7 "On torture and capital punishment" / Voltaire -- Reading 8 Preventing torture / Malcolm D. Evans and Rod Morgan -- Ch. II Being tortured -- Reading 1 The railway man / Eric Lomax -- Reading 2 And night fell / Molefe Pheto -- Reading 3 Statement by Abu Ghraib detainee -- Reading 4 The gulag archipelago / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- Reading 5 A miracle, a universe / Lawrence Weschler -- Reading 6 The method / Pericles Korovessis -- Reading 7 "Torture" / Jean Amery -- Reading 8 Against our will / Susan Brownmiller -- Reading 9 Report Uzbekistan / Amnesty International -- Reading 10 Prison of women / Antonia Garcia in Tomasa Cuevas ̃-- Ch. III Who are the torturers? -- Reading 1 King Leopold's ghost / Adam Hochschild -- Reading 2 "The torturer's tale" / Keith Atkinson -- Reading 3 "The perils of obedience" / Stanley Milgram -- Reading 4 "The official torturer" / Mika Haritos-Fatouros -- Reading 5 "Ritual abuse" / Joan C. Golston -- Reading 6 Hidden terrors / A. J. Langguth -- Reading 7 The winter soldier investigation / Jon Drolshagen -- Reading 8 "Torture" / Jean Amery -- Reading 9 "The torturers' notebooks" / Adam Hochschild -- Reading 10 The battle of the Casbah / Paul Aussaresses -- Reading 11 The wretched of the earth / Frantz Fanon -- Reading 12 "In their own words" / Ronald Crelinsten -- Ch. IV The dynamics of torture -- Reading 1 Human resource exploitation training manual / CIA -- Reading 2 The politics of cruelty / Kate Millett -- Reading 3 Prisoner without a name, cell without a number / Jacobo Timerman -- Reading 4 The body in pain / Elaine Scarry -- Reading 5 "What's wrong with torture" / David Sussman -- Reading 6 "Intimate terror" / Rhonda Copelon -- Ch. V The social context of torture -- Reading 1 Torture / Pierre Vidal-Naquet -- Reading 2 The origins of totalitarianism / Hannah Arendt -- Reading 3 Republic of fear / Kanan Makiya -- Reading 4 "The psychology and culture of torture and torturers" / Ervin Staub -- Reading 5 "How to make a torturer" / Ronald Crelinsten -- Reading 6 Unspeakable acts, ordinary people / John Conroy -- Ch. VI The ethics of torture -- Reading 1 "Of torture" / Jeremy Bentham -- Reading 2 "The case for torture" / Michael Levin -- Reading 3 "Kidnapping has Germans debating police torture" / Richard Bernstein -- Reading 4 Why terrorism works / Alan Dershowitz -- Reading 5 "Torture" / Henry Shue -- Reading 6 "Suggestions for Japanese interpreters" / Sherwood F. Moran -- Reading 7 "Does torture work?" / Darius M. Rejali -- Reading 8 Tainted legacy / William Schulz -- Reading 9 Landau commission report -- Reading 10 Supreme Court of Israel judgment -- Ch. VII Healing the victims, stopping the torture -- Reading 1 "Treatment of victims of torture" / Lone Jacobsen and Edith Montgomery -- Reading 2 "Police officers convicted of torturing man in detention" / Amnesty International -- Reading 3 "Torture spoken here" / Minky Worden -- Reading 4 Aydin v. Turkey / European Court of Human Rights -- Reading 5 International criminal court Q & A sheet / Amnesty International -- Reading 6 "An end to impunity" / Geoffrey Robertson -- Reading 7 "The case of general pinochet" / Geoffrey Robertson -- Reading 8 Filartiga v. Pena-Irala / Richard Pierre Claude -- Reading 9 "The contribution of truth commissions" / Priscilla B. Hayner -- Reading 10 "Human rights education for the police" / Marc DuBois |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Torture.
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Human rights.
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| Author |
Schulz, William F.
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| LC no. |
2006053093 |
| ISBN |
9780812219821 alkaline paper |
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0812219821 alkaline paper |
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