Silverman, Lisa. <br/><br/>
Tortured subjects  pain, truth, and the body in early modern France /  [electronic resource] : 
Lisa Silverman. 
 - Chicago :  University of Chicago Press,  2001. 
 - xv, 264 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-255) and index. 
<br/><br/>pt. 1. An epistemology of pain. Murder in the Rue Noue : the trials of Jean Bourdil and the legal system of old regime France. "If he trembles, if he weeps, or sighs . . ." : judges, legal manuals, and the theory of torture. "To know the truth from his mouth" : the practice of torture in the parlement of Toulouse, 1600-1788 -- pt. 2. Pain, truth, and the body. "The excuteur of his own life" : lay piety and the valorization of pain. "The tortur'd patient" : pain, surgery, and suffering. As if pain could draw the truth from a suffering wretch" : pain as politics. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2010. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Torture--History.--France<br/>Criminal justice, Administration of--History.--France
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV8599.F7  / S55 2001eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>364.6/7