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Torture power, democracy, and the human body / [electronic resource] : edited by Shampa Biswas and Zahi Zalloua. - Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (viii, 283 p. :) ill. ; - Global re-visions . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-263) and index.

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 Guantánamo Bay / Lauren Wilcox -- The torture device : debate and archetype / Stephanie Athey -- Specters of the Muselmann : Guantánamo 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.

ISBN: 9780295801810 0295801816

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mind and body--Congresses.
Psychiatric ethics--Congresses.
Human body--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses.
Torture--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HV8593 / .T6627 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 364.6/7