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Record ID marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part01.utf8:2962339:1689
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LEADER: 01689cam a2200289 a 4500
001 00009586
003 DLC
005 20041210181237.0
008 000517s2001 ilua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 00009586
020 $a0226757536 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0226757544 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $ae-fr---
050 00 $aHV8599.F7$bS55 2001
082 00 $a364.6/7$221
100 1 $aSilverman, Lisa.
245 10 $aTortured subjects :$bpain, truth, and the body in early modern France /$cLisa Silverman.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2001.
300 $axv, 264 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $apt. 1. An epistemology of pain. Murder in the Rue Noue : the trials of Jean Bourdil and the legal system of old regime France. "If he trembles, if he weeps, or sighs . . ." : judges, legal manuals, and the theory of torture. "To know the truth from his mouth" : the practice of torture in the parlement of Toulouse, 1600-1788 -- pt. 2. Pain, truth, and the body. "The excuteur of his own life" : lay piety and the valorization of pain. "The tortur'd patient" : pain, surgery, and suffering. As if pain could draw the truth from a suffering wretch" : pain as politics.
650 0 $aTorture$zFrance$xHistory.
650 0 $aCriminal justice, Administration of$zFrance$xHistory.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi051/00009586.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/uchi051/00009586.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/uchi051/00009586.html