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Confronting torture : essays on the ethics, legality, history, and psychology of torture today / Scott A. Anderson and Martha C. Nussbaum.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226529554
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 364.675 23
LOC classification:
  • HV8593 .C654 2018
Online resources: Torture has lately become front page news, featured in popular movies and TV shows, and a topic of intense public debate. It grips our imagination, in part because torturing someone seems to be an unthinkable breach of humanity - theirs and ours. And yet, when confronted with horrendous events in war, or the prospect of catastrophic damage to one's own country, many come to wonder whether we can really afford to abstain entirely from torture. Before trying to tackle this dilemma, though, we need to see torture as a multifaceted problem with a long history and numerous ethical and legal aspects. 'Confronting Torture' offers a multidisciplinary investigation of this wrenching topic.
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Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Torture has lately become front page news, featured in popular movies and TV shows, and a topic of intense public debate. It grips our imagination, in part because torturing someone seems to be an unthinkable breach of humanity - theirs and ours. And yet, when confronted with horrendous events in war, or the prospect of catastrophic damage to one's own country, many come to wonder whether we can really afford to abstain entirely from torture. Before trying to tackle this dilemma, though, we need to see torture as a multifaceted problem with a long history and numerous ethical and legal aspects. 'Confronting Torture' offers a multidisciplinary investigation of this wrenching topic.

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