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The Ethics of Medical Involvement in Capital Punishment - A Philosophical Discussion (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
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The Ethics of Medical Involvement in Capital Punishment - A Philosophical Discussion (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 18
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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.
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