Tortured Subjects

List of Illustrations
Preface
A Note on Foreign Terms
Introduction
Part One: An Epistemology of Pain
1. Murder in the rue Noue: The Trials of Jean Bourdil and the Legal System of Old Regime France
2. "If he trembles, if he weeps, or sighs . . .": Judges, Legal Manuals, and the Theory of Torture
3. "To know the truth from his mouth": The Practice of Torture in the Parlement of Toulouse, 1600-1788
Part Two: Pain, Truth, and the Body
4. "The executioner of his own life": Lay Piety and the Valorization of Pain
5. "The tortu'd patient": Pain, Surgery, and Suffering
6. ". . . as if pain could draw the truth from a suffering wretch": Pain as Politics
Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index