The ethics of torture
By: J. Jeremy Wisnewski and R.D. Emerick.
Contributors: Emerick, R. D.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780826498892; 9780826498908
Subjects: Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Coming to (definitional) terms with torture : four models; title: The economic model of torture : ticking bomb arguments and torture warrants; title: The phenomenological model of torture : dignity and the destruction of agency; title: The dramaturgical model : the immorality play of interrogation; title: The communicative model of torture : understanding institutionally-permissive torture; title: Assessing the varieties of torture : concluding reflections on a recurrent problem.