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The absolute violation : why torture must be prohibited /
"State torture has found an increasing number of defenders in law, philosophy, and public policy. Their defences often ignore the empirical literature on torture and thus misunderstand its nature and the damage it does, as well as accepting the illusory benefits it promises." "Richard...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montréal [Québec] ; Ithaca [N.Y.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "State torture has found an increasing number of defenders in law, philosophy, and public policy. Their defences often ignore the empirical literature on torture and thus misunderstand its nature and the damage it does, as well as accepting the illusory benefits it promises." "Richard Matthews challenges the increasing acceptability of state-sponsored torture interrogation, repudiating any possible justifications. He confronts its various supporters - ticking time bomb and tragic choice theorists, utilitarians, legal scholars - and draws from philosophy, medicine, psychiatry, survivor and torturer narratives, history, feminism, the experience of working intelligence officials, anthropology, and game theory to illustrate that no moral justification for torture can be supported."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 238 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index. Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232). |
| ISBN: | 9780773574823 0773574824 9780773578289 0773578285 1282864726 9781282864726 9786612864728 6612864729 |