Mainstreaming torture : ethical approaches in the post-9/11 United States

Mainstreaming torture : ethical approaches in the post-9/11 United States / Rebecca Gordon.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reopened what many Americans had assumed was a settled ethical question: is torture ever morally permissible? Rebecca Gordon argues that institutionalised state torture remains as wrong today as it was before those terrible attacks, and shows how U.S. prac...

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Main Author: Gordon, Rebecca (Author)
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
2001-2009
Torture > Government policy > United States.
Torture > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
Terrorism > Prevention > Government policy > United States.
RELIGION > Philosophy.
RELIGION > Religion, Politics & State.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Terrorism > Prevention > Government policy
Torture > Government policy
Torture > Moral and ethical aspects
United States
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