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Torture and democracy / Darius Rejali.
LIBRA HV8593 .R44 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rejali, Darius M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Torture.
- Torture--Government policy.
- Penn Provenance:
- Peters, Edward, 1936- (donor) (Lea copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 849 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Modern torture and its observers
- Torture and democracy
- Lights, heat, and sweat
- Whips and water
- Bathtubs
- Shock
- Magnetos
- Currents
- Singing the world electric
- Prods, tasers, and stun guns
- Stun city
- Sticks and bones
- Water, sleep, and spice
- Stress and duress
- Forced standing and other positions
- Fists and exercises
- Old and new restraints
- Noise
- Drugs and doctors
- Supply and demand for clean torture
- Does torture work?
- What the apologists say
- Why governments don't learn
- The great age of torture in modern memory.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [781]-818) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Lea Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Dr. Edward Peters.
- Lea Library copy has dustjacket retained.
- Lea Library copy has a few ms. underlines throughout.
- ISBN:
- 9780691114224
- 0691114226
- OCLC:
- 123485118
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