The Ethics of Medical Involvement in Capital Punishment A Philosophi
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.
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INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF ETHICS, LAW, AND THE NEW MEDICINE Founding Editors DAVID C. THOMASMA† DAVID N. WEISSTUB, Université de Montréal, Canada THOMASINE KIMBROUGH KUSHNER, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
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Editorial Board SOLLY BENATAR, University of Cape Town, South Africa TERRY CARNEY, University of Sydney, Australia UFFE JUUL JENSEN, Universitet Aarhus, Denmark GERRIT K. KIMSMA, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands EVERT VAN LEEUWEN, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands SHEILA MCLEAN, Glasgow University Law School, Glasgow, United Kingdom DAVID NOVAK, University of Toronto, Canada EDMUND D. PELLEGRINO, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., U.S.A. DOM RENZO PEGORARO, Fondazione Lanza and University of Padua, Italy ROBYN SHAPIRO, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, U.S.A. LAWRENCE TANCREDI, New York University, New York, U.S.A.
VOLUME 18
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THE ETHICS OF MEDICAL INVOLVEMENT IN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT A Philosophical Discussion
by
Joseph B.R. Gaie University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER 1 MEDICALISATION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
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MEDICALISATION ..........................................................................................................1 MEDICAL INVOLVEMENT IN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT .....................................................2 ISSUES ARISING FROM THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN MEDICALISATION AND INVOLVEMENT ..........................................................................................................2 THE MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS’ POSITION ON MEDICALISATION OF CAPITAL PUNISHME. NT .............................................................................................................3 What the Medical Associations Regard as Unacceptable for their Members to do .4 ROLE MORALITY...........................................................................................................6 AGNOSTICISM ...............................................................................................................6 CHAPTER 2 ROLE/PROFESSIONAL VERSUS ORDINARY MORALITY
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ROLE MORALITY...........................................................................................................9 ROLES .....
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