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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gaie, Joseph B. R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, [2004]
Series:International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v. 18.
Subjects:
Ethics, Medical.
Capital Punishment.
Table of Contents:
  • 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