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1 online resource (vi, 319 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword : Tyranny of terror : is torture inevitable in our century and beyond? / Ariel Dorfman -- Contemplating torture : an introduction / Sanford Levinson -- Torture / Henry Shue -- Political action : the problem of dirty hands / Michael Walzer -- Reflection on the problem of "dirty hands" / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Legal history of torture / John H. Langbein -- American interrogation : from torture to trickery / Jerome H. Skolnick -- Mental state of torturers : Argentina's dirty war / Mark Osiel -- Escalation and necessity : defining torture at home and abroad / John T. Parry -- Judgment concerning the legality of the general security service's interrogation methods / Supreme Court of Israel -- Can the war against terror justify the use of force in interrogations? Reflections in the light of the Israeli experience / Miriam Gur-Arye -- Promise and limits of the international law of torture / Oona A. Hathaway -- European convention on human rights and its prohibition on torture / Fionnuala Ní Aoiláin -- Prohibition on torture and the limits of the law / Oren Gross -- Tortured reasoning / Alan Dershowitz -- Five errors in the reasoning of Alan Dershowitz / Elaine Scarry -- Torture, terrorism, and interrogation / Richard A. Posner -- Loose professionalism, or why lawyers take the lead on torture / Richard H. Weisberg. |
| Summary |
Torture is perhaps the most unequivocally banned practice in the world today. Yet recent photographs from Abu Ghraib substantiated claims that the United States and some of its allies are using methods of questioning relating to the war on terrorism that could be described as torture or, at the very least, as inhuman and degrading. In terror's wake, the use of such methods, at least under some conditions, has gained some prominent defenders, notably from within the White House. In this revised edition, Torture: A Collection brings together leading lawyers, political theorists, social scientists, and public intellectuals to debate the advisability of maintaining the absolute ban and to reflect on what it says about our societies if we do--or do not--adhere to it in all circumstances. New to this edition are essays by Charles Krauthammer and Andrew Sullivan on the adoption in 2005 of the McCain Amendment, which explicitly bars the use of torture and other cruel methods of interrogation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Human rights.
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Human rights. |
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Political prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Political prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Political prisoners. |
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Electronic books.
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Human rights. |
| Added Author |
Levinson, Sanford, 1941-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Torture. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 0195172892 9780195172898 (DLC) 2004008860 (OCoLC)54989183 |
| ISBN |
9780198038573 (electronic book) |
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0198038577 (electronic book) |
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9780195172898 |
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0195172892 |
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0195172892 (Cloth) |
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