Foreword / Juan E. Méndez --

Introduction --

ch. 1. Torture in Western history --

Reading 1 : Torture and truth / Page DuBois --

Reading 2 : The torture of Jesus --

Reading 3 : Torture and the law of proof / John H. Langbein --

Reading 4 : Torture / Edward Peters --

Reading 5 : Discipline and punish / Michel Foucault --

Reading 6 : "An essay on crimes and punishments" / Cesare Beccaria --

Reading 7 : "On torture and capital punishment" / Voltaire --

Reading 8 : Preventing torture / Malcolm D. Evans and Rod Morgan --

ch. 2. Being tortured --

Reading 1 : The railway man / Eric Lomax --

Reading 2 : And night fell / Molefe Pheto --

Reading 3 : Statement by Abu Ghraib detainee --

Reading 4 : The Gulag Archipelago / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn --

Reading 5 : A miracle, a universe / Lawrence Weschler --

Reading 6 : The method / Pericles Korovessis --

Reading 7 : "Torture" / Jean Améry --

Reading 8 : Against our will / Susan Brownmiller --

Reading 9 : Report Uzbekistan / Amnesty International --

Reading 10 : Antonia García in Prison of women / Tomasa Cuevas.

ch. 3. Who are the torturers? --

Reading 1 : King Leopold's ghost / Adam Hochschild --

Reading 2 : "The torturer's tale" / Keith Atkinson --

Reading 3 : "The perils of obedience" / Stanley Milgram --

Reading 4 : "The official torturer" / Mika Haritos-Fatouros --

Reading 5 : "Ritual abuse" / Joan C. Golston --

Reading 6 : Hidden terrors / A.J. Langguth --

Reading 7 : The winter soldier investigation / Jon Drolshagen --

Reading 8 : "Torture" / Jean Améry --

Reading 9 : "The torturer's notebooks" / Adam Hochschild --

Reading 10 : The battle of the casbah / Paul Aussaresses --

Reading 11 : The wretched of the earth / Frantz Fanon --

Reading 12 : "In their own words" / Ronald Crelinsten --

ch. 4. The dynamics of torture --

Reading 1 : Human resource exploitation training manual / CIA --

Reading 2 : The politics of cruelty / Kate Millett --

Reading 3 : Prisoner without a name, cell without a number / Jacobo Timerman --

Reading 4 : The body in pain / Elaine Scarry --

Reading 5 : "What's wrong with torture" / David Sussman --

Reading 6 : "Intimate terror" / Rhonda Copelon.

ch. 5. The social context of torture --

Reading 1 : Torture / Pierre Vidal-Naquet --

Reading 2 : The origins of totalitarianism / Hannah Arendt --

Reading 3 : Republic of fear / Kanan Makiya --

Reading 4 : "The psychology and culture of torture and torturers" / Ervin Staub --

Reading 5 : "How to make a torturer" / Ronald Crelinsten --

Reading 6 : Unspeakable acts, ordinary people / John Conroy --

ch. 6. The ethics of torture --

Reading 1 : "Of torture" / Jeremy Bentham --

Reading 2 : "The case for torture" / Michael Levin --

Reading 3 : "Kidnapping has Germans debating police torture" / Richard Bernstein --

Reading 4 : Why terrorism works / Alan Dershowitz --

Reading 5 : "Torture" / Henry Shue --

Reading 6 : "Suggestions for Japanese interpreters" / Sherwood F. Moran --

Reading 7 : "Does torture work?" / Darius M. Rejali --

Reading 8 : Tainted legacy / William Schulz --

Reading 9 : Landau Commission Report --

Reading 10 : Supreme Court of Israel judgment.

ch. 7. Healing the victims, stopping the torture --

Reading 1 : "Treatment of victims of torture" / Lone Jacobsen and Edith Montgomery --

Reading 2 : "Police officers convicted of torturing man in detention" / Amnesty International --

Reading 3 : "Torture spoken here" / Minky Worden --

Reading 4 : Aydin v. Turkey / European Court of Human Rights --

Reading 5 : International Criminal Court Q & A sheet / Amnesty International --

Reading 6 : "An end to impunity" / Geoffrey Robertson --

Reading 7 : "The case of General Pinochet" / Geoffrey Robertson --

Reading 8 : Filartiga v. Pena-Irala / Richard Pierre Claude --

Reading 9 : "The contribution of truth commissions" / Priscilla B. Hayner --

Reading 10 : "Human rights education for the police" / Marc DuBois --

Appendix : Excerpts from documents --

UN Convention against torture --

International Standards Against Torture --

U.S. Army Field Manual --

How to get involved --

Notes --

Bibliography --

Acknowledgments --

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