The phenomenon of torture
Subtitle: readings and commentary
By: edited and with an introduction by William F. Schulz ; foreword by Juan E. Méndez.
Contributors: Schulz, William F.
Series: Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780812291827; 9780812219821
Subjects: Torture; Human rights
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-379).
Table of contents: title: Torture and truth / Page DuBois; title: The torture of Jesus; title: Torture and the law of proof / John H. Langbein; title: Torture / Edward Peters; title: Discipline and punish / Michel Foucault; title: An essay on crimes and punishments / Cesare Beccaria; title: On torture and capital punishment / Voltaire; title: Preventing torture / Malcolm D. Evans and Rod Morgan; title: The railway man / Eric Lomax; title: And night fell / Molefe Pheto; title: Statement by Abu Ghraib detainee; title: The Gulag Archipelago / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; title: A miracle, a universe / Lawrence Weschler; title: The method / Pericles Korovessis; title: Torture / Jean Améry; title: Against our will / Susan Brownmiller; title: Report Uzbekistan / Amnesty International; title: Antonia García in Prison of women / Tomasa Cuevas; title: King Leopold's ghost / Adam Hochschild; title: The torturer's tale / Keith Atkinson; title: The perils of obedience / Stanley Milgram; title: The official torturer / Mika Haritos-Fatouros; title: Ritual abuse / Joan C. Golston; title: Hidden terrors / A.J. Langguth; title: The winter soldier investigation / Jon Drolshagen; title: Torture / Jean Améry; title: The torturer's notebooks / Adam Hochschild; title: The battle of the casbah / Paul Aussaresses; title: The wretched of the earth / Frantz Fanon; title: In their own words / Ronald Crelinsten; title: Human resource exploitation training manual / CIA; title: The politics of cruelty / Kate Millett; title: Prisoner without a name, cell without a number / Jacobo Timerman; title: The body in pain / Elaine Scarry; title: What's wrong with torture / David Sussman; title: Intimate terror / Rhonda Copelon; title: Torture / Pierre Vidal-Naquet; title: The origins of totalitarianism / Hannah Arendt; title: Republic of fear / Kanan Makiya; title: The psychology and culture of torture and torturers / Ervin Staub; title: How to make a torturer / Ronald Crelinsten; title: Unspeakable acts, ordinary people / John Conroy; title: Of torture / Jeremy Bentham; title: The case for torture / Michael Levin; title: Kidnapping has Germans debating police torture / Richard Bernstein; title: Why terrorism works / Alan Dershowitz; title: Torture / Henry Shue; title: Suggestions for Japanese interpreters / Sherwood F. Moran; title: Does torture work? / Darius M. Rejali; title: Tainted legacy / William Schulz; title: Landau Commission Report; title: Supreme Court of Israel judgment; title: Treatment of victims of torture / Lone Jacobsen and Edith Montgomery; title: Police officers convicted of torturing man in detention / Amnesty International; title: Torture spoken here / Minky Worden; title: Aydin v. Turkey / European Court of Human Rights; title: International Criminal Court Q & A sheet / Amnesty International; title: An end to impunity / Geoffrey Robertson; title: The case of General Pinochet / Geoffrey Robertson; title: Filartiga v. Pena-Irala / Richard Pierre Claude; title: The contribution of truth commissions / Priscilla B. Hayner; title: Human rights education for the police / Marc DuBois; title: Excerpts from documents : UN Convention against torture ; International Standards Against Torture ; U.S. Army Field Manual.