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Title Torture [electronic resource] : power, democracy, and the human body / edited by Shampa Biswas, Zahi Zalloua.

Imprint Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press, 2011.

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Description viii, 283 p.
Series Global re-visions
Global re-visions.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction. Torture, democracy, and the human body / Shampa Biswas and Zahi Zalloua -- 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 Guantanamo Bay / Lauren Wilcox -- The torture device : debate and archetype / Stephanie Athey -- Specters of the Muselmann : Guantanamo 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses.
Human body -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses.
Psychiatric ethics -- Congresses.
Mind and body -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Biswas, Shampa.
Zalloua, Zahi Anbra, 1971-
ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title Power, democracy, and the human body
ISBN 9780295991221 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780295801810 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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