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torture

Description: The intentional infliction of severe physical or mental pain or suffering, often examined in human rights, law, and political violence.
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The body in pain
1985 · Elaine Scarry · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 3,257
Association of Torture and Other Potentially Traumatic Events With Mental Health Outcomes Among Populations Exposed to Mass Conflict and Displacement
2009 · Zachary Steel, Tien Chey, et al. · JAMA · 2,238
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
2007 · P. Wells · Community Development Journal · 1,960
State Repression and Political Order
2007 · Christian Davenport · Annual Review of Political Science · 1,562
The Harvard Trauma Questionnaire. Validating a cross-cultural instrument for measuring torture, trauma, and posttraumatic stress disorder in Indochinese refugees.
1992 · R F Mollica, Y Caspi-Yavin, et al. · PubMed · 1,549
The Harvard Trauma Questionnaire
1992 · RICHARD F. MOLLICA, YAEL CASPI-YAVIN, et al. · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease · 1,488
Inventing human rights: a history
2007 · Choice Reviews Online · 912
On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below
1998 · Paul Farmer · University of California Press eBooks · 879
Lifetime Events and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in 4 Postconflict Settings
2001 · Joop T. V. M. de Jong · JAMA · 804
At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities
1981 · Fritz Stern, Jean Améry · Foreign Affairs · 736
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing
2020 · Michael Taussig · Duke University Press eBooks · 722
Indochinese versions of the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25: a screening instrument for the psychiatric care of refugees
1987 · R F Mollica, G Wyshak, et al. · American Journal of Psychiatry · 710
Respect for Human Rights has Improved Over Time: Modeling the Changing Standard of Accountability
2014 · CHRISTOPHER J. FARISS · American Political Science Review · 706
Culture of Terror—Space of Death. Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture
1984 · Michael Taussig · Comparative Studies in Society and History · 672
Finger in the Wound
1999 · Diane M. Nelson · University of California Press eBooks · 634
Disappearing acts: spectacles of gender and nationalism in Argentina's "dirty war"
1997 · Choice Reviews Online · 616
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Cases, Materials, and Commentary
2001 · Sarah Joseph, Jennifer Schultz, et al. · 573
Crimes against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice
2000 · G. John Ikenberry, Geoffrey Robertson · Foreign Affairs · 560
The Psychosocial Effects of Torture, Mass Human Rights Violations, and Refugee Trauma
1999 · DERRICK SILOVE · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease · 551
Rape in marriage
1982 · Diana E. H. Russell · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 536
The development and maintenance of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in civilian adult survivors of war trauma and torture: A review
2007 · Howard Johnson, Andrew Thompson · Clinical Psychology Review · 528
Casting out: the eviction of Muslims from Western law and politics
2009 · Choice Reviews Online · 517
Sexual politics, torture, and secular time
2008 · Judith Butler · British Journal of Sociology · 492
Welcome to the desert of the real! : five essays on September 11 and related dates
2002 · Slavoj Žižek · 492
The Torture Papers
2005 · Anthony Lewis · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 491
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Citation count: 167,600
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