Torture and democracy
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
c2007.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10320494 |
Table of 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.