Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-379).
Contents:
Antonia García in Prison of women / Tomasa Cuevas -- ch. 2. Torture in Western history -- Torture and truth / Page DuBois -- The torture of Jesus -- Torture and the law of proof / John H. Langbein -- Torture / Edward Peters -- Discipline and punish / Michel Foucault -- "An essay on crimes and punishments" / Cesare Beccaria -- "On torture and capital punishment" / Voltaire -- Preventing torture / Malcolm D. Evans and Rod Morgan -- ch. 2. Being tortured -- The railway man / Eric Lomax -- And night fell / Molefe Pheto -- Statement by Abu Ghraib detainee -- The Gulag Archipelago / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- A miracle, a universe / Lawrence Weschler -- The method / Pericles Korovessis -- "Torture" / Jean Améry -- Against our will / Susan Brownmiller -- Report Uzbekistan / Amnesty International -- Antonia García in Prison of women / Tomasa Cuevas -- ch. 4. The "Intimate terror" / King Leopold's ghost / Rhonda Copelon -- "The torturer's tale" / Keith Atkinson -- "The perils of obedience" / Stanley Milgram -- "The official torturer" / Mika Haritos-Fatouros -- "Ritual abuse" / Joan C. Golston -- Hidden terrors / A.J. Langguth -- The winter soldier investigation / Jon Drolshagen -- "Torture" / Jean Améry -- "The torturer's notebooks" / Adam Hochschild -- The battle of the casbah / Paul Aussaresses -- The wretched of the earth / Frantz Fanon -- "In their own words" / Ronald Crelinsten -- ch. 4. The dynamics of torture -- Human resource exploitation training manual / CIA -- The politics of cruelty / Kate Millett -- Prisoner without a name, cell without a number / Jacobo Timerman -- The body in pain / Elaine Scarry -- "What's wrong with torture" / David Sussman -- "Intimate terror" / Rhonda Copelon -- ch. 6. The Supreme Court of Israel judgment -- Torture / William Schulz -- The origins of totalitarianism / Hannah Arendt -- Republic of fear / Kanan Makiya -- "The psychology and culture of torture and torturers" / Ervin Staub -- "How to make a torturer" / Ronald Crelinsten -- Unspeakable acts, ordinary people / John Conroy -- ch. 6. The ethics of torture -- "Of torture" / Jeremy Bentham -- "The case for torture" / Michael Levin -- "Kidnapping has Germans debating police torture" / Richard Bernstein -- Why terrorism works / Alan Dershowitz -- "Torture" / Henry Shue -- "Suggestions for Japanese interpreters" / Sherwood F. Moran -- "Does torture work?" / Darius M. Rejali -- Tainted legacy / William Schulz -- Landau Commission Report -- Supreme Court of Israel judgment -- and How to get involved. "Treatment of victims of torture" / Marc DuBois -- and Edith Montgomery -- "Police officers convicted of torturing man in detention" / Amnesty International -- "Torture spoken here" / Minky Worden -- Aydin v. Turkey / European Court of Human Rights -- International Criminal Court Q & A sheet / Amnesty International -- "An end to impunity" / Geoffrey Robertson -- "The case of General Pinochet" / Geoffrey Robertson -- Filartiga v. Pena-Irala / Richard Pierre Claude -- "The contribution of truth commissions" / Priscilla B. Hayner -- "Human rights education for the police" / Marc DuBois -- Appendix : Excerpts from documents -- UN Convention against torture -- International Standards Against Torture -- U.S. Army Field Manual -- How to get involved.
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