The Ethics of Medical Involvement in Capital Punishment: A Philosophical Discussion
Author: David C. Thomasma, David N. Weisstub, Thomasine Kimbrough Kushner, Solly Benatar, Terry Carney, Uffe Juul Jensen, Gerrit K. Kimsma, Evert van Leeuwen, Sheila Mclean, David Novak, Edmund D. Pellegrino, Dom Renzo Pegoraro, Robyn Shapiro, Lawrence Tancredi, Joseph B. R. Gaie
Published by Springer Netherlands
ISBN: 978-1-4020-1764-3
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-2539-4

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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-152) and index

Preliminaries; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 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; CONCLUSION; APPENDICES; REFERENCES; INDEX

The author here examines the important issue of the consistency of medical involvement in ending lives in medicine, law and war, using philosophical theory to show why medical doctors may be involved at different stages of the capital punishment process

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