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The ethics of medical involvement in capital punishment : a philosophical discussion /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gaie, Joseph B. R.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, 2004.
Series:International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v. 18.
Subjects:
Medical ethics.
Capital punishment > Moral and ethical aspects.
Medicine > Philosophy.
Medicine.
Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.