Why torture doesn't work : the neuroscience of interrogation /

"Torture is banned because it is cruel and inhumane. But as Shane O'Mara writes in this account of the human brain under stress, another reason torture should never be condoned is because it does not work the way torturers assume it does. In countless films and TV shows such as Homeland an...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Mara, S. M. (Shane M.) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Psychic trauma.
Psychological abuse.
Torture.
Torture
Traumatisme psychique.
Violence psychologique.
torturing.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL > Neuroscience.
Psychic trauma
Psychological abuse
Folter
Neurowissenschaften
Psykiska trauman.
Psykisk misshandel.
Tortyr.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Torture in modern times
  • How the brain supports memory and executive functions
  • Can we use technology to detect deception?
  • What do stress and pain do to the brain?
  • What does sleep deprivation do to the brain?
  • Drowning, cooling, heating, and starving the brain
  • Why does a torturer torture?
  • Why torture? Why not talk?

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