The Ethics of Medical Involvement in Capital Punishment A Philosophical Discussion /

• Main Author: Gaie, Joseph B. R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Thomasma, David C. (Editor), Weisstub, David N. (Editor), Kushner, Thomasine Kimbrough (Editor), Benatar, Solly (Editor), Carney, Terry (Editor), Jensen, Uffe Juul (Editor), Kimsma, Gerrit K. (Editor), Leeuwen, Evert van (Editor), Mclean, Sheila (Editor), Novak, David (Editor), Pellegrino, Edmund D. (Editor), Pegoraro, Dom Renzo (Editor), Shapiro, Robyn (Editor), Tancredi, Lawrence (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2004.
• Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 18
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Political philosophy.; Political Philosophy.

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 t...

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.