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Pavadinimas: THE ETHICS OF MEDICAL INVOLVEMENT IN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT A PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION
Autoriai: JOSEPH B.R. GAIE
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ISBN: 1-4020-1764-2
Brūkšninis kodas: 003075047826
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     This book examines the extremely important issue of the consistency of medical involvement in ending lives in medicine, law and war. It uses philosophical theory to show why medical doctors may be involved at different stages of the capital punishment process. The author uses the theories of Emmanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill, combined with Gerwith's principle of generic consistency, to concretize ethics in capital punishment practice. This book does not discuss the moral justification of capital punishment, but rather looks at the possible forms of involvement and shows why consistency would demand medical involvement. The author takes a general approach, using arguments that may apply universally. The book broaches different academic fields, such as medicine, ethics, business, politics and defense. The Ethics of Medical Involvement in Capital Punishment is of interest to students, teachers, lecturers and researchers working in the areas of capital punishment, medical, legal and business ethics, and political philosophy.

XI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
XIII INTRODUCTION
1 CHAPTER 1
MEDICALISATION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
1 MEDICALISATION
2 MEDICAL INVOLVEMENT IN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
2 ISSUES ARISING FROM THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN MEDICALISATION AND
INVOLVEMENT
3 THE MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS' POSITION ON MEDICALISATION OF CAPITAL
PUNISHMENT
4 What the Medical Associations Regard as Unacceptable for their Members to do
6 ROLE MORALITY
6 AGNOSTICISM
9 CHAPTER 2
ROLE/PROFESSIONAL VERSUS ORDINARY MORALITY
9 ROLE MORALITY
10 ROLES
11 PROFESSIONAL MORALITY IS THE APPLICATION OF ORDINARY MORAL PRINCIPLES
IN SPECIAL SITUATIONS
16 BUSINESS MORALITY IS NOT SEPARATE FROM ORDINARY MORALITY
23 MEDICAL VERSUS ORDINARY MORALITY
27 CHAPTER 3
THE MORALITY OF EUTHANASIA AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MEDICALISATION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
47 CHAPTER 4
THE MILITARY DOCTOR
61 CHAPTER 5
MEDICAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE WIDER CAPITAL PUNISHMENT PROCESS
62 INSTITUTIONAL JUSTIFICATION
63 MEDICAL INVOLVEMENT AT THE INVESTIGATION STAGE OF A CAPITAL CRIME
64 MEDICAL INVOLVEMENT IN OTHER NON-THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITIES
65 MEDICAL EVIDENCE THAT THE SUSPECT IS FIT FOR A CAPITAL OFFENCE TRIAL
66 MEDICAL TESTIMONY IN A CAPITAL TRIAL
66 PRE-SENTENCE MEDICAL EVALUATION
67 MEDICAL EVALUATION OF FITNESS FOR EXECUTION
69 MEDICAL RE-EVALUATION OF COMPETENCE TO BE EXECUTED
69 MEDICAL TREATMENT TO RESTORE COMPETENCY TO BE EXECUTED
72 MEDICAL INVOLVEMENT IN WAR AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
73 MILITARY DOCTOR ROLE COMPARED TO THE DOCTOR-EXECUTIONER ROLE
74 MEDICAL INVOLVEMENT IN PREPARING A PRISONER FOR HANGING VERSUS GIVING
MEDICAL EVIDENCE IN A CAPITAL TRIAL
75 "PARTICIPATION" AND "PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT"
77 LETHAL INJECTION
81C HAPTER 6
KANTIAN THEORY
81 INTRODUCTION
82 KANTIAN THEORY OF JUSTICE
87 INVESTIGATION AND TRIAL
88 FITNESS TO PLEAD AND STAND TRIAL
89 SENTENCING STAGE
90 TREATMENT ON DEATH Row
91 DETERMINATION OF DANGEROUSNESS TO SOCIETY
92 FITNESS/COMPETENCE DETERMINATION FOR EXECUTION AND TREATMENT TO
RESTORE COMPETENCE
93 TRANQUILLISATION
94 LETHAL INJECTION
95 WHO SHOULD EXECUTE?
96 SOME PEOPLE ARE BETTER OFF DEAD
99 ORGAN DONATION
103 CHAPTER 7
UTILITARIAN ARGUMENTS FOR MEDICALISATION
104 UTILITARIANISM
107 INVESTIGATION
108 MEDICAL DETERMINATION OF SUSPECT'S FITNESS TO PLEAD AND STAND TRIAL
110 MEDICAL PARTICIPATION IN A CAPITAL TRIAL
112 PREDICTION OF FUTURE DANGEROUSNESS TO SOCIETY
114 EXECUTION COMPETENCE DETERMINATION AND RESTORATION
117 TRANQUILLISATION
118 SUBJUGATION BY MEDICAL MEANS OF AN INMATE FOR EXECUTION
120 LETHAL INJECTION AND RELATED PREPARATIONS
122 ORGAN DONATION
124 CERTIFICATION OF DEATH
125 CHAPTER 8
THE MEDICAL DOCTOR AND A CONDEMNED PRISONER
125 THE SOCIAL POSITION OF THE MEDICAL DOCTOR IN HISTORY
128 THE MEDICAL DOCTOR IN RELATION TO THE CONDEMNED PRISONER
131 CONCLUSION
133 APPENDICES
133 APPENDIX 1
133 ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF JUSTIFIABLE MEDICAL KILLING: PRISONER DOCTORS IN THE NAZI CAMPS
139 APPENDIX 2
139 PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE: L. HURST (1999)
143 APPENDIX 3
143 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL "ETHICS OF MEDICAL PARTICIPATION IN WAR"
QUESTIONNAIRE (JANUARY 25 1999)
145 APPENDIX 4
145 RESTRICTION OF DUTIES MEDICAL CERTIFICATE
147 REFERENCES
153 INDEX