Why Torture Doesn't Work

Informationen zum Autor Shane O’Mara is Professor of Experimental Brain Research at Trinity College, Dublin, and Director of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. Klappentext Besides being cruel and inhumane, torture does not work the way torturers assume it does. As Shane O¿Maräs 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 unreliable, or even counterproductive and dangerous. Zusammenfassung 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 unreliable, or even counterproductive and dangerous.

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• Authors: Shane Mara, O&apos, Shane O`mara, S. M. O'Mara, Shane O'Mara, Shane O''mara, O'Mara Shane
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9780674743908
• ISBN: 978-0-674-74390-8
• No. of pages: 290
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 218 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; LAW / Criminal Law / General, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, Criminal law & procedure, MEDICAL / Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Neurosciences, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Terrorism, Criminal law: procedure and offences