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

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,
Other Authors:	Oxford Scholarship Online.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Physical Description:	1 online resource.
Subjects:	Torture -- Government policy -- United States. Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States. War on Terrorism, 2001-2009. Terrorism -- Prevention -- Government policy -- United States.

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