Wanda Teays, Phd. is a Philosophy Professor Emerita at Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles. She has written in the areas of Bioethics, Human Rights, Critical Reasoning, and Ethics and Film. She is the author of a number of books, including Business Ethics Through Movies: A Case Study Approach, Seeing the Light: Exploring Ethics Through Movies, and Doctors and Torture: Medicine at the Crossroads.Her edited volumes include Analyzing Violence Against Women as well as The Ethical University and Global Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Perspectives (co-edited with Alison Dundes Renteln) and Ethics in the AI, Technology, and Information Age (co-edited with Michael Boylan).
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Solitary Confinement
Wanda Teays
This book journeys into the dark territory of solitary confinement. It examines its practice in prisons, jails, immigration detention facilities, and even schools. It looks at international ethics codes such as that of the World Medical Association, the World Health Organization, and the Declaration of Tokyo, all of which describe the prolonged use of solitary confinement as akin to torture. The author shows how the philosophical theories of Jeremy Bentham,...
