Law and Torture - Hardcover
by Ergün Cakal
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009719452ISBN-10:1009719459UPC:9781009719452Book Category:Political Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Human Rights, Ethics & Moral PhilosophySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.0913Product ID:SCEYE5XZP2
Contemporary understandings of torture are ruled by a medico-legal duopoly: the language of law (regulating definition and prohibition) and that of medicine (controlling understandings of the body in pain). This duopoly has left little space for contextual conceptualisation - of ideological, emotional and imaginational impulses which function in readily recognising some forms of violence and...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009719452ISBN-10:1009719459UPC:9781009719452Book Category:Political Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Human Rights, Ethics & Moral PhilosophySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.0913Product ID:SCEYE5XZP2
Cakal, Ergün: - Ergün Cakal is a researcher at the University of Copenhagen's and formerly a legal advisor at the Danish Institute Against Torture (DIGNITY). He has worked as an anti-torture lawyer since 2016, focusing on conceptualisation, prevention and documentation of torture. He holds master's degrees in the sociology of law from Lund University and in international law from the University...
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