Torture

About: Torture is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 8173 publications have been published within this topic receiving 109895 citations.

Noble ideals and bloody realities : warfare in the middle ages

Abstract: List of Contributors Notes on Arabic Transliteration and References Introduction PART ONE: NOBLE IDEALS: PERCEPTIONS OF WARFARE "Collateral Damage?" Civilian Casualties in the Early Ideologies of Chivalry and Crusade David J Hay Medieval Warfare and the Value of a Human Life Kelly DeVries Religious Campaign or War of Conquest? Muslim Views of the Motives of the First Crusade Niall Christie PART TWO: BLOODY REALITIES: WAR IN PRACTICE Thinking about Crusader Strategy John France The Torture of Military Captives in the Crusades to the Medieval Middle East Piers D Mitchell Holy War, Royal Wives, and Equivocation in Twelfth-Century Jerusalem Deborah Gerish Arming the Enemy: Non-Christians' Roles in the Military Culture of the Crown of Aragon during the Reconquista Paula R Stiles Communal Piracy in Medieval England's Cinque Ports David G Sylvester Wartime Corruption and Complaints of the English Peasantry Ilana Krug PART THREE: UNTO THE BREACH: RE-EXAMINING ISSUES IN MEDIEVAL AND MODERN MILITARY HISTORIOGRAPHY The Military Revolution and the Early Islamic State Hugh Kennedy Byzantium, the Reluctant Warrior Warren Treadgold Reynald of Chatillon and the Red Sea Expedition of 1182-83 Marcus Milwright Appendix

Representing Sylvia Plath: Plath and torture: cultural contexts for Plath’s imagery of the Holocaust

Abstract: Sylvia Plath’s torture texts are the eye of the needle though which pass various chronological and tropological threads: World War II and the ‘war on terror’, political trauma and familial abuse. In order to expose the presence of those threads in some of Plath’s most intense poems, I begin this essay in the post-9/11 era and move backwards to World War II, situating Plath’s Cold War texts, especially ‘The Jailer’ and ‘Lady Lazarus’, between the two. My examination suggests that Plath’s poems echo and swerve from the World War II torture texts that inspired them, set guidelines for interpreting the renewed torture discourse of the twenty-first century and crucially connect the representation of torture to that of domesticity. The attacks of 9/11 precipitated in the United States an era of torture. The zeitgeist propelled a new ruthlessness. It was not so much that Christianity was endangered as that our masculinity was on trial – female masculinity as well as male, as we see in the case of Lynndie England and other women soldiers convicted of abuse at Abu Ghraib. We did not want to be ‘pansies’ or sitting ducks. We fought aggression with torture, or perhaps we decided that the shock of 9/11 permitted us to explore for ourselves what Dick Cheney famously called ‘the dark side’.

CRPD Advocacy by the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry: The Emergence of an User/Survivor Perspective in Human Rights

Abstract: Human rights law evolves through processes of social eruption, in which social movements agitate for the recognition of injustices as legal wrongs, and in which sectors of the population that have been oppressed rise up to assert themselves as protagonists who change the landscape of law along with the social, economic and cultural relationships in which law is grounded. The involvement of users and survivors of psychiatry in the CRPD drafting and negotiations, as an integral part of the community of people with disabilities, set the stage for a dramatic (r)evolution in human rights law. This paper explores the genesis of key provisions in the CRPD on legal capacity, liberty, and freedom from forced interventions, and their early interpretation and application.

Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility: The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw

Abstract: "Human dignity" has been enshrined in international agreements and national constitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association calls on physicians to respect human dignity and to discharge their duties with dignity. And yet human dignity is a term--like love, hope, and justice--that is intuitively grasped but never clearly defined. Some ethicists and bioethicists dismiss it; other thinkers point to its use in the service of particular ideologies. In this book, Michael Barilan offers an urgently needed, nonideological, and thorough conceptual clarification of human dignity and human rights, relating these ideas to current issues in ethics, law, and bioethics. Combining social history, history of ideas, moral theology, applied ethics, and political theory, Barilan tells the story of human dignity as a background moral ethos to human rights. After setting the problem in its scholarly context, he offers a hermeneutics of the formative texts on Imago Dei; provides a philosophical explication of the value of human dignity and of vulnerability; presents a comprehensive theory of human rights from a natural, humanist perspective; explores issues of moral status; and examines the value of responsibility as a link between virtue ethics and human dignity and rights. Barilan accompanies his theoretical claim with numerous practical illustrations, linking his theory to such issues in bioethics as end-of-life care, cloning, abortion, torture, treatment of the mentally incapacitated, the right to health care, the human organ market, disability and notions of difference, and privacy, highlighting many relevant legal aspects in constitutional and humanitarian law.