The Absolute Violation
Why Torture Must Be Prohibited
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
| Author: | Richard S. Matthews | ISBN: | 9780773578289 |
| Publisher: | MQUP | Publication: | July 24, 2008 |
| Imprint: | MQUP | Language: | English |
| Author: | Richard S. Matthews |
| ISBN: | 9780773578289 |
| Publisher: | MQUP |
| Publication: | July 24, 2008 |
| Imprint: | MQUP |
| Language: | English |
Richard Matthews challenges the increasing acceptability of state-sponsored torture interrogation, repudiating any possible justifications. He confronts its various supporters - ticking time bomb and tragic choice theorists, utilitarians, legal scholars - and draws from philosophy, medicine, psychiatry, survivor and torturer narratives, history, feminism, the experience of working intelligence officials, anthropology, and game theory to illustrate that no moral justification for torture can be supported.
Richard Matthews challenges the increasing acceptability of state-sponsored torture interrogation, repudiating any possible justifications. He confronts its various supporters - ticking time bomb and tragic choice theorists, utilitarians, legal scholars - and draws from philosophy, medicine, psychiatry, survivor and torturer narratives, history, feminism, the experience of working intelligence officials, anthropology, and game theory to illustrate that no moral justification for torture can be supported.
