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Acknowledgements

My colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania in several academic departments and on the staff of the Van Pelt Library have been immensely helpful to me in the research and writing of this book, as have Professor James Muldoon of Rutgers University, Camden, and John T. Conroy, MD, of West Hartford, Connecticut. I express particular gratitude to Alan Kors, Martin Wolfe, Jack Reece, Thomas Childers and David Ludden. Elliott Mossman helped me considerably with Soviet legal theory, and Elaine Scarry forced me to distinguish between moral and sentimental definitions of torture in a long discussion over her own forthcoming book The Making and Unmaking of the World: The Body and Pain. The Interlibrary Loan Section of the Van Pelt Library quickly and expertly provided books that would otherwise have proved very difficult for me to obtain. Ms Joan Plonski rapidly turned disordered typescript and handwritten corrections into a clear and accurate text. Without her services the book would have taken much longer to write. If I have ventured far from my usual fields of research in the later parts of this book, I have done so with the help of these colleagues and with the encouragement of R.I. Moore and Patrick Wormald, and I am grateful to the former for having invited me to write it at a moment when neither of us had the vaguest idea of what it would be when it was finished.

This book is dedicated to those human beings who work in – or pass through – the RCT, Copenhagen, Denmark, and to the memory of F.S. Cocks.

Full citations of sources cited in parentheses in the text will be found in the bibliographical essay.

E.P.