Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Torture : power, democracy, and the human body / edited by Shampa Biswas and Zahi Zalloua
Published Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, 2011

Copies

Description 1 online resource (viii, 283 p.)
Series Global re-visions
Global re-visions.
Contents Torture and democracy : what now? / Darius Rejali -- Now that we've tortured : image, guilt, consequence / Mark Danner -- We are all torturers now : accountability after Abu Ghraib / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn -- Dying Is not permitted : sovereignty, biopower, and force-feeding at Guantánamo Bay / Lauren Wilcox -- The torture device : debate and archetype / Stephanie Athey -- Specters of the Muselmann : Guantánamo Bay Penalogial Theme Park and the torture of Omar Khadr / Joseph Pugliese -- This fragile body : Susan Crile's Abu Ghraib : abuse of power / Julia A. Ireland -- Sri Lanka : landscapes of massacre / Suvendrini Perera
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-263) and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
Subject Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses
Human body -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses
Psychiatric ethics -- Congresses
Mind and body -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society.
Human body -- Moral and ethical aspects
Mind and body
Psychiatric ethics
Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects
Folter
Legitimation
Politische Ethik
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Biswas, Shampa
Zalloua, Zahi Anbra, 1971-
LC no. 2021694602
ISBN 9780295801810
0295801816
Other Titles Power, democracy, and the human body