Why Torture Doesn’t Work : : The Neuroscience of Interrogation /

Why Torture Doesn’t Work : : The Neuroscience of Interrogation / / Shane O'Mara.

Besides being cruel and inhumane, torture does not work the way torturers assume it does. As Shane O’Mara’s account of the neuroscience of suffering reveals, extreme stress creates profound problems for memory, mood, and thinking, and sufferers predictably produce information that is deeply unreliab...

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O'Mara, Shane,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Edition:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Language:English
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Introduction --   |t 1. Torture in Modern Times --   |t 2. How the Brain Supports Memory and Executive Functions --   |t 3. Can We Use Technology to Detect Deception? --   |t 4. What Do Stress and Pain Do to the Brain? --   |t 5. What Does Sleep Deprivation Do to the Brain? --   |t 6. Drowning, Cooling, Heating, and Starving the Brain --   |t 7. Why Does a Torturer Torture? --   |t 8. Why Torture? Why Not Talk? --   |t References --   |t Further Reading --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Index 
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