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ethics of medical involvement in capital punishment
The author here examines the important issue of the consistency of medical involvement in ending lives in medicine, law and war, using philosophical theory to show why medical doctors may be involved at different stages of the capital punishment process.
Preliminaries; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; MEDICALISATION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; ROLE/PROFESSIONAL VERSUS ORDINARY MORALITY; THE MORALITY OF EUTHANASIA AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MEDICALISATION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; THE MILITARY DOCTOR; MEDICAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE WIDER CAPITAL PUNISHMENT PROCESS; KANTIAN THEORY; UTILITARIAN ARGUMENTS FOR MEDICALISATION; THE MEDICAL DOCTOR AND A CONDEMNED PRISONER; CONCLUSION; APPENDICES; REFERENCES; INDEX.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-152) and index.
Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, 2004
International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v. 18