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The Ethics of Medical Involvement in Capital Punishment. A Philosophical Discussion.
Joseph B.R. Gaie
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Hardback. Examines the issue of the consistency of medical involvement in ending lives in medicine, law, and war. This book uses theories of Emmanuel Kant and John S Mill, combined with Gerwith's principle of generic consistency, to concretize ethics in capital punishment practice. It is designed for students, teachers, lecturers, and researchers. Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Num Pages: 159 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 458.
The morality of capital punishment has been debated for a long time. This however has 1 not resulted in the settlement of the question either way. Philosophers are still divided. In this work I am not addressing the morality of capital punishment per se. My question is different but related. It is this. Whether or not capital punishment is morally right, is it moral or immoral for medical doctors to be involved in the practice? To deal with this question I start off in Chapter One delineating the sort of involvement the medical associations consider to be morally problematic for ... Read more
The morality of capital punishment has been debated for a long time. This however has 1 not resulted in the settlement of the question either way. Philosophers are still divided. In this work I am not addressing the morality of capital punishment per se. My question is different but related. It is this. Whether or not capital punishment is morally right, is it moral or immoral for medical doctors to be involved in the practice? To deal with this question I start off in Chapter One delineating the sort of involvement the medical associations consider to be morally problematic for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
159
Condition
New
Series
International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
Number of Pages
159
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402017643
SKU
V9781402017643
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