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Title: Week 4: Torture, Extra-Judicial Executions and Political Repression


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Week 4 Torture, Extra-Judicial Executions and
Political Repression
  • Created by Dr. Kay Picart and Jeneen Surrency

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Guide Questions
1.What is the definition of torture under
international law, and what are the implicit
depictions of the healthy/ freehuman body?
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Guide Questions
2.What is the difference between just punishment
and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or
punishment?
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Guide Questions
3.What ethical issues arise when physicians,
scientists or other medical personnel become
involved in torture?
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Guide Questions
4.Taking a particular test case, what was the
degree of state repression in the Soviet Gulag,
based on existing documents? What ethnic
and political criteria were involved in
repressive measures? How was psychiatric
repression configured in relation to bodily
torture?
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