Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-157) and index
Coming to (definitional) terms with torture: four models -- The economic model of torture: ticking-bomb arguments and torture warrants -- The phenomenological model of torture: dignity and the destruction of agency -- The dramaturgical model of torture: interrogation's immorality play -- The communicative model of torture: understanding institutionally permissive torture -- Assessing the varieties of torture: concluding reflections on a recurrent problem