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Torture's In/visibility [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Real-time photographic and video documentation f torture tends to be privileged over other visual materials, which are usually seen as lacking substantial evidentiary value.
Viterbo, H
core   +1 more source

Bioremediation of Crystal Violet Dye Using Sapindus mukorossi Functionalized Iron‐Oxide Nanoparticles From Coprecipitation Method

open access: yesAsia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The textile industry is a water‐intensive industry that disrupts aquatic ecosystems by releasing recalcitrant chemicals like crystal violet (CV) dye characterized by its carcinogenic and mutagenic nature. Ethanolic extract of saponin‐rich Sapindus mukorossi was employed in the synthesis of biogenic iron oxide nanoparticles (IONP).
Rajeswari M. Kulkarni   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health impact of electric discharge weapons: a review of case studies

open access: yesTorture
Introduction: In recent years mass protest movements have taken to the streets in many countries across the world. Despite strong international and domestic legal protections for the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and other fundamental human ...
Marie Brasholt   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Conflict in the Indian Kashmir Valley I: exposure to violence. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
: BACKGROUND: India and Pakistan have disputed ownership of the Kashmir Valley region for many years, resulting in several conflicts since the end of partition in 1947.
de Jong, K   +7 more
core   +2 more sources

The rise of informed consent and retreat from dependence upon unclaimed bodies in anatomy: An overview and assessment

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract The development of anatomy has been marked by ethically questionable practices. This has been because the dissection of human bodies has always existed on the periphery of conventional society, necessitating a range of dubious ways of obtaining dead bodies for educational and research purposes.
David Gareth Jones
wiley   +1 more source

RWU Hosts Training on Evidence-Based Interrogation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Program for police detectives from Rhode Island and Massachusetts comes amid national debate about whether torture ...
Fitzpatrick, Edward
core   +1 more source

Torture — The Case for Dirty Harry and against Alan Dershowitz [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Can torture be morally justified? I shall criticise arguments that have been adduced against torture and demonstrate that torture can be justified more easily than most philosophers dealing with the question are prepared to admit. It can be justified not
Steinhoff, Uwe
core   +1 more source

‘Literal torture’: Vulnerability, resilience and young people's experiences of pressure in physical education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper combines vulnerability and resilience theory to explore the pressure young people experience in Physical Education (PE) and sport at secondary school. The theoretical framework was used to understand both how young people experience PE in school and how vulnerability and resilience function interdependently in social contexts like ...
David Littlefair, Michael Jopling
wiley   +1 more source

Mental Torture: A Critique of Erasures in U.S. Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Both international and federal law criminalize mental torture as well as physical torture, and both agree that “severe mental pain or suffering” defines mental torture. However, U.S. law provides a confused and convoluted definition of severe mental pain
Luban, David, Shue, Henry
core   +1 more source

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