The History Of Torture

ISBN-13: 9780710308375 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 256 str.

George Ryley Scott

Opis

Torture, an enduring and seemingly not declining aspect of man's relationship to his fellow man, is an enduring thread through human history. Whether it be practiced by primitive people, the ancient Greeks or the Catholic Church, whether it be ancient China, Japan, 1930's Germany, or Northern Ireland today, torture is alarmingly systematic and consistent in its methods. Impaling, burning, rack or wheel, mutilation, drawing and quartering, burning or hanging alive in chains.

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PREFACE PART I PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF TORTURE 1. THE MEANING AND LIMITATIONS OF TORTURE III. THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF TORTURE III. SADISM AS A BASIC CAUSE OF TORTURE BY THE INDIVIDUAL IV. THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE IN MASOCHISM V. THE CAUSES OF WHOLESALE OR MASS TORTURE VI. THE EFFECTS OF TORTURE XV. THE WAR UPON TORTURE XVI. SOME NOTORIOUS TORTURERS PART III THE TECHNIQUE OF TORTURE XVII. IMPALING METHODS XVIII. BURNING AT THE STAKE, BRANDING, BOILING TO DEATH, THE FIRE-PAN AND THE BRAZEN BULL XIX. SQUASSATION, THE RACK, THE WHEEL, THE BOOT AND THE SCAVENGER'S' DAUGHTER XX. WHIPPING AND BEATING XXI. MUTILATION, DRAWING AND QUARTERING, DECAPITATION XXII. BURYING ALIVE, HANGING ALIVE IN CHAINS, STARVATION, THE" VIRGIN MARY," ETC. XXIII. TORTURE BY ORDEAL XXIV. MISCELLANEOUS FORMS OF TORTURE. XXV METHODS OF SELF-INFLICTED TORTURE XXVI. MODERN METHODS OF TORTURE XXVII. FORMS OF TORTURE OF ANIMALS PART IV THE CASE AGAINST TORTURE XXVIII. THE FUTILITY OF TORTURE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIMINALITY XXIX. THE EVILS OF TORTURE AS A FORM OF PUNISHMENT XXX. THE PSYC.HOPATHOLOGICAL ELEMENT IN TORTURE, AND ITS TREATMENT XXXI. THE ABOLITION OF TORTURE

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George Ryley Scott