TY  - BOOK
AU  - Silverman,Lisa
TI  - Tortured subjects : pain, truth, and the body in early modern France: pain, truth, and the body in early modern France 
SN  - 0226757544 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - HV8599 .S55 
U1  - 364.6/7 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Torture
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - history
KW  - Criminal Law
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - ram
KW  - Droit pénal
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; pt. 1. An epistemology of pain. Murder in the Rue Noue : the trials of Jean Bourdil and the legal system of old regime France. "If he trembles, if he weeps, or sighs . . ." : judges, legal manuals, and the theory of torture. "To know the truth from his mouth" : the practice of torture in the parlement of Toulouse, 1600-1788 -- pt. 2. Pain, truth, and the body. "The executioner of his own life" : lay piety and the valorization of pain. "The tortur'd patient" : pain, surgery, and suffering. As if pain could draw the truth from a suffering wretch" : pain as politics
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UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/uchi051/00009586.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/uchi051/00009586.html
ER  -