The Ethics of Medical Involvement in Capital Punishment - Joseph B.R. Gaie

The Ethics of Medical Involvement in Capital Punishment

A Philosophical Discussion
Buch | Softcover
159 Seiten
2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-6494-3 (ISBN)
106,99 inkl. MwSt
The morality of capital punishment has been debated for a long time. Whether or not capital punishment is morally right, is it moral or immoral for medical doctors to be involved in the practice?
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 medical doctors in capital punishment. They make a distinction between what they call 2 “medicalisation” of and “involvement” in capital punishment, and argue that there is a moral distinction between the two. Whilst it is morally acceptable for doctors to be “involved” in capital punishment, according to the medical associations, it is immoral to medicalise the practice. I clarify this position and show what moral issues arise. I then suggest that there should not be a distinction between the two. The medical associations argue that the medicalisation of capital punishment, especially the use by medical doctors of lethal injection to execute condemned prisoners is immoral and therefore should be prohibited, because it involves doctors in doing what is against the aims of medicine.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 8.12.2010
Reihe/Serie "International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine " ; 18
Zusatzinfo 3 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 159 p. 3 illus.
Verlagsort Dordrecht
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinethik
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Kriminologie
ISBN-10 90-481-6494-X / 904816494X
ISBN-13 978-90-481-6494-3 / 9789048164943
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