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Torture and Torturous Violence
2023There is growing recognition that torture is very narrowly defined in domestic and international laws, and that the endemic nature of psychological and/or sexualised violence against women is not adequately recognized as torture. Concretely defining torturous violence, this book offers scholars and practitioners a nuanced way to critically reflect on ...
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Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2007
Torture has become a key theme in healthcare and a rising number of publications, especially over the last years, confirm its relevance also in regard to mental health.Torture survivors appear to be a frequent but also underdetected group in clinical and general populations. Exposure to further stressful and traumatic events is common. Sequelae include
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Torture has become a key theme in healthcare and a rising number of publications, especially over the last years, confirm its relevance also in regard to mental health.Torture survivors appear to be a frequent but also underdetected group in clinical and general populations. Exposure to further stressful and traumatic events is common. Sequelae include
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South African Journal of Philosophy, 2006
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Why ‘Torture and Torturous Violence’?
2023Torture is simultaneously a silenced entity and an overused term – something we often shy away from in serious discussion, but a word we might use flippantly. It is not uncommon to use the term ‘torture’ to describe mild displeasures: sitting through a poorly written play, listening to a song we don’t like, spending time with an odious relative ...
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Politics and the Life Sciences, 2019
AbstractContrary to the claims of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that its torture program was scientific, the program was not based on biology or any other science. Instead, the George W. Bush administration veneered the program’s justification with a patina of pseudoscience, ignoring the actual biology of torturing human brains.
Shane, O'Mara, John, Schiemann
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AbstractContrary to the claims of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that its torture program was scientific, the program was not based on biology or any other science. Instead, the George W. Bush administration veneered the program’s justification with a patina of pseudoscience, ignoring the actual biology of torturing human brains.
Shane, O'Mara, John, Schiemann
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2019
In his account of torture, Jean Amery describes not only the act of torture and the experience of the person being tortured, but also the torturers themselves, with their particular psychology. Amery claims that the torture was done by people fully intent on inflicting pain, rather than by mere “bureaucrats of torture”, as some might argue.
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In his account of torture, Jean Amery describes not only the act of torture and the experience of the person being tortured, but also the torturers themselves, with their particular psychology. Amery claims that the torture was done by people fully intent on inflicting pain, rather than by mere “bureaucrats of torture”, as some might argue.
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Istanbul Protocol 2022 empowers health professionals to end torture
Lancet, The, 2022Rohini J Haar, Michele Heisler
exaly