Torture
Subtitle: power, democracy, and the human body
By: edited by Shampa Biswas and Zahi Zalloua
Series: Global re-visions
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Seattle, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780295991221
Subjects: Congresses; Human body; Mind and body; Psychiatric ethics; Torture
Other titles: Power, democracy, and the human body
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-263) and index.
Table of contents: title: Torture and democracy : what now? / Darius Rejali; title: Now that we've tortured : image, guilt, consequence / Mark Danner; title: We are all torturers now : accountability after Abu Ghraib / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn; title: Dying Is not permitted : sovereignty, biopower, and force-feeding at Guantánamo Bay / Lauren Wilcox; title: The torture device : debate and archetype / Stephanie Athey; title: Specters of the Muselmann : Guantánamo Bay Penalogial Theme Park and the torture of Omar Khadr / Joseph Pugliese; title: This fragile body : Susan Crile's Abu Ghraib : abuse of power / Julia A. Ireland; title: Sri Lanka : landscapes of massacre / Suvendrini Perera.