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001			ocn934433768
003			OCoLC
005			20240726105014.0
008			160111s2015 mau ob 001 0 eng d
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020			_a9780674915510 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aRC552 _b.W498 2015
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aO'Mara, S. M. _q(Shane M.), _e1
245	1	0	_aWhy torture doesn't work : _bthe neuroscience of interrogation / _cShane O'Mara.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c(c)2015.
300			_a1 online resource (322 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aTorture in modern times -- _tHow the brain supports memory and executive functions -- _tCan we use technology to detect deception? -- _tWhat do stress and pain do to the brain? -- _tWhat does sleep deprivation do to the brain? -- _tDrowning, cooling, heating, and starving the brain -- _tWhy does a torturer torture? -- _tWhy torture? Why not talk?
520	0		_a"Torture is banned because it is cruel and inhumane. But as Shane O'Mara writes in this account of the human brain under stress, another reason torture should never be condoned is because it does not work the way torturers assume it does. In countless films and TV shows such as Homeland and 24, torture is portrayed as a harsh necessity. If cruelty can extract secrets that will save lives, so be it. CIA officers and others conducted torture using precisely this justification. But does torture accomplish what its defenders say it does? For ethical reasons, there are no scientific studies of torture. But neuroscientists know a lot about how the brain reacts to fear, extreme temperatures, starvation, thirst, sleep deprivation, and immersion in freezing water, all tools of the torturer's trade. These stressors create problems for memory, mood, and thinking, and sufferers predictably produce information that is deeply unreliable--and, for intelligence purposes, even counterproductive. As O'Mara guides us through the neuroscience of suffering, he reveals the brain to be much more complex than the brute calculations of torturers have allowed, and he points the way to a humane approach to interrogation, founded in the science of brain and behavior. Torture may be effective in forcing confessions, as in Stalin's Russia. But if we want information that we can depend on to save lives, O'Mara writes, our model should be Napoleon: 'It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.'"--Publisher's description.
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650		0	_aPsychic trauma.
650		0	_aPsychological abuse.
650		0	_aTorture.
650		4	_aPsychic trauma.
650		4	_aPsychological abuse.
650		4	_aTorture.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1133830&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell