Torture and the ticking bomb / Bob Brecher.

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishing, 2007.

59874

Torture.

Human rights.

1. Introduction

2. The fantasy of the ticking bomb scenario

3. The consequences of normalizing interrogational torture

4. Torture, death and philosophy.

This book addresses itself to the arguments for legalising the limited use of interrogational torture and for making torture an accepted weapon in the war on terror.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781405162012

x, 122 p. ; 23 cm