This Side of Silence: Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty
(Part of the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Series)
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We are accustomed to thinking of torture as the purposeful infliction of cruelty by public officials, and we assume that lawyers and clinicians are best placed to speak about its causes and effects. However, it has not always been so. The category of torture is a very specific way of thinking about violence, and our current understandings of the term are rooted in recent twentieth-century history. In This Side of Silence, social anthropologist...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0812222814
ISBN13:9780812222814
Release Date:October 2013
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:232 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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