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100	1		_aMatthews, Richard.
245	1	4	_aThe absolute violation : _bwhy torture must be prohibited / _cRichard Matthews.
260			_aMontréal [Québec] ; _aIthaca [N.Y.] : _bMcGill-Queen's University Press, _cc2008.
300			_axi, 238 p. ; _c23 cm.
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [221]-232) and index.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references: p. [221]-232.
505	0		_aUnderstanding torture -- What about the ticking bomb? -- Why utilitarians must oppose torture -- Torture, tragic choices, and dirty hands -- On neither excusing nor justifying torture.
520	1		_a"State torture has found an increasing number of defenders in law, philosophy, and public policy. Their defences often ignore the empirical literature on torture and thus misunderstand its nature and the damage it does, as well as accepting the illusory benefits it promises." "Richard Matthews challenges the increasing acceptability of state-sponsored torture interrogation, repudiating any possible justifications. He confronts its various supporters - ticking time bomb and tragic choice theorists, utilitarians, legal scholars - and draws from philosophy, medicine, psychiatry, survivor and torturer narratives, history, feminism, the experience of working intelligence officials, anthropology, and game theory to illustrate that no moral justification for torture can be supported."--BOOK JACKET.
650		0	_aTorture _xMoral and ethical aspects.
650		0	_aTorture.
650		6	_aTorture.
650		6	_aTorture _xAspect moral.
650	1	7	_aMartelen. _2gtt
650	0	7	_aFolter _2swd
650	0	7	_aEthik _2swd
999			_c410 _d410