| 书目名称 | The Ethics of Medical Involvement in Capital Punishment | | 副标题 | A Philosophical Disc | | 编辑 | Joseph B. R. Gaie,David C. Thomasma,David N. Weiss | | 视频video | | | 丛书名称 | International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | 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 do | | 出版日期 | Book 2004 | | 关键词 | Utilitarianism; ethics; morality; politics; punishment | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2539-4 | | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-6494-3 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-2539-6Series ISSN 1567-8008 Series E-ISSN 2351-955X | | issn_series | 1567-8008 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2004 |
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