Torture and impunity : the U.S. doctrine of coercive interrogation /
From the publisher. Many Americans have condemned the "enhanced interrogation" techniques used in the War on Terror as a transgression of human rights. But the United States has done almost nothing to prosecute past abuses or prevent future violations. Tracing this knotty contradiction fro...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Madison :
The University of Wisconsin Press,
©2012.
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| Serie: | Critical human rights.
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| Accesso online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=494883 |
Sommario:
- The CIA's pursuit of psychological torture
- Science in Dachau's shadow
- Torture in the crucible of counterinsurgency
- Theater state of terror
- The seduction of psychological torture
- The outcast of Camp Echo
- Psychological torture and public forgetting.