Anatomy of Torture
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Product details:
- Publisher Cornell University Press
- Date of Publication 15 April 2022
- ISBN 9781501762031
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 229x152x19 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 Charts; 10 Halftones, black & white 404
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Long description:
Does torture "work?" Can controversial techniques such as waterboarding extract crucial and reliable intelligence? Since 9/11, this question has been angrily debated in the halls of power and the court of public opinion. In Anatomy of Torture, Ron E. Hassner mines the archives of the Spanish Inquisition to propose an answer that will frustrate and infuriate both sides of the divide.
The Inquisition's scribes recorded every torment, every scream, and every confession in the torture chamber. Their transcripts reveal that Inquisitors used torture deliberately and meticulously, unlike the rash, improvised methods used by the United States after 9/11. In their relentless pursuit of underground Jewish communities in Spain and Mexico, the Inquisition tortured in cold blood. But they treated any information extracted with caution: torture was used to test information provided through other means, not to uncover startling new evidence.
Hassner's findings in Anatomy of Torture have important implications for ongoing torture debates. Rather than insist that torture is ineffective, torture critics should focus their attention on the morality of torture. If torture is evil, its efficacy is irrelevant. At the same time, torture defenders cannot advocate for torture as a counterterrorist "quick fix": torture has never located, nor will ever locate, the hypothetical "ticking bomb" that is frequently invoked to justify brutality in the name of security.
[A]n admirable and worthwhile enterprise... his humility comes across as refreshing, and his statistical analysis of the demographics, methods, and results of Inquisition torture yields results that even specialists of the period or subject matter will find compelling and possibly groundbreaking.
MoreTable of Contents:
1. How Little We Know about Torture
2. Three Myths about the Spanish Inquisition
3. Learning to Torture: Ciudad Real (1484-1515)
4. Correlates of Torture: Toledo (1575-1610)
5. Exploratory Torture: Mexico City (1589-1591)
6. Corroborative Torture: Mexico City (1594-1601)
7. Lessons from the Spanish Inquisition
Epilogue: The Ethics of Studying Torture
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