Torture has recently been the subject of some sensational headlines. As a result, there has
been a huge surge in interest in the ethical implications of this contentious issue. The Ethics …

The question of when, and under what circumstances, the practice of torture might be
justified has received a great deal of attention in the last decade in both academia and in the …

Torture has once again become a timely topic. The “War on Terror” launched after September
11, 2001 has renewed a philosophical and political debate, in the United States and …

International law defines torture as the intentional infliction of intense suffering aimed at
forcing someone to reveal information, punishing unwanted behavior or inspiring fear in a …

Despite an absolute prohibition against torture, countries throughout the world continue to
engage in ill-treatment and torture, often during times of national stress, when perceived …

… The main argument of Mainstreaming Torture is that nearly everyone who has written about
the ethics of torture has erred in treating it as "episodic incidents— unique, temporally and …

The Geneva Convention on prisoners of war forbids ‘any form of torture’carried out ‘at any
time’or ‘in any place’. Such all-encompassing language situates torture as a practice widely …

… Hardly any of these works consider the ethics of torture as the cluster of questions I have …
Regarding the first task of proposing a sociable ethics of torture, I use Latour to theorize how …

Torture has lately become front page news, featured in popular movies and TV shows, and
a topic of intense public debate. It grips our imagination, in part because torturing someone …

… for the Abolition of Torture, sponsored by Amnesty International in Paris, December 10–11,
1973, established a Medical Commission to deal with the medical ethics of torture. The …