Book ID: CBB000320354

Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France (2001)

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Silverman, Lisa (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: xv + 264pp.; illus; bib.; index
Language: English

Description “Contends that torture was at the center of an epistemological crisis that forced French jurists and intellectuals to reconsider the relationship between coercion and sincerity, or between free will and evidence.” (from description in OCLC WorldCat citation)


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Review Nye, Robert A. (2002) Review of "Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 815). unapi

Review Quinlan, Sean M. (2004) Review of "Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 105). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Jinee Lokaneeta
Ron E. Hassner
Stolleis, Michael
Schröder, Peter
Palermo, Angela
Moosa, Ebrahim
Concepts
Science and law
Jurisprudence
Science and government
Probability and statistics
Torture
Crime
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
19th century
20th century, early
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
21st century
Places
France
United States
Italy
Austria
Netherlands
Spain
Institutions
United States. Supreme Court
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