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050 00 $aHV8593$b.T662 2004
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245 00 $aTorture :$ba collection /$cedited by Sanford Levinson.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2004.
300 $avi, 319 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tForeword : the tyranny of terror : is torture inevitable in our century and beyond? /$rAriel Dorfman --$g1.$tContemplating torture : an introduction /$rSanford Levinson --$g2.$tTorture /$rHenry Shue --$g3.$tPolitical action : the problem of dirty hands /$rMichael Walzer --$g4.$tReflection on the problem of "dirty hands" /$rJean Bethke Elshtain --$g5.$tThe legal history of torture /$rJohn H. Langbein --$g6.$tAmerican interrogation : from torture to trickery /$rJerome H. Skolnick --$g7.$tThe mental state of torturers : Argentina's dirty war /$rMark Osiel --$g8.$tEscalation and necessity : defining torture at home and abroad /$rJohn T. Parry --$g9.$tJudgment concerning the legality of the General Security Service's interrogation methods /$rSupreme Court of Israel --$g10.$tCan the war against terror justify the use of force in interrogations? : reflections in light of the Israeli experience /$rMiriam Gur-Arye --$g11.$tThe promise and limits of the international law of torture /$rOona A. Hathaway --$g12.$tThe European convention on human rights and its prohibition on torture /$rFionnuala Ni Aoilain --$g13.$tThe prohibition on torture and the limits of the law /$rOren Gross --$g14.$tTortured reasoning /$rAlan Dershowitz --$g15.$tFive errors in the reasoning of Alan Dershowitz /$rElaine Scarry --$g16.$tTorture, terrorism, and interrogation /$rRichard A. Posner --$g17.$tLoose professionalism, or why lawyers take the lead on torture /$rRichard H. Weisberg.
520 1 $a"Torture: A Collection brings together leading lawyers, political theorists, social scientists, and public intellectuals to debate the advisability of maintaining the absolute ban of torture and to reflect on what it says about our societies if we do - or do not - adhere to it in all circumstances. One important question is how we define torture at all."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aTorture$xMoral and ethical aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010116133
650 0 $aHuman rights.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85026379
650 0 $aPolitical prisoners$xLegal status, laws, etc.
700 1 $aLevinson, Sanford,$d1941-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82216030
852 00 $bleh$hHV8593$i.T662 2004
852 00 $bbar$hHV8593$i.T662 2004