Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation

Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation
ISBN-10
0674915534
ISBN-13
9780674915534
Category
Medical
Pages
244
Language
English
Published
2015-11-30
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Shane O'Mara

Description

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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