Torture: An Expert's Confrontation with an Everyday Evil

by Manfred Nowak

Book Overview

Torture represents a direct attack on the essence of human dignity. Its mere mention evokes a prolific and sordid history: Europe in the Middle Ages, with beds of nails, witch hunts, and burnings; the brutal methods used by military dictatorships against political dissidents in 1970s Latin America; and the gruesome photographs from Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and other Bush-era places of detention. While leaders in the West had once hoped that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812249917
• ISBN13: 9780812249910
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"