Inalienable Rights : The Limits of Consent in Medicine and the Law.
by
 
McConnell, Terrance.

Title
Inalienable Rights : The Limits of Consent in Medicine and the Law.

Author
McConnell, Terrance.

ISBN
9780195350685

Personal Author
McConnell, Terrance.

Physical Description
1 online resource (185 pages)

Contents
Contents -- Introduction -- ONE: The Nature of Inalienable Rights -- TWO: The Moral Foundations of Inalienable Rights -- THREE: The Inalienable Right of Conscience: A Madisonian/Jeffersonian Argument -- FOUR: The Right of Informed Consent and Inalienability -- FIVE: The Inalienable Right to Life and Its Implications for Voluntary Euthanasia -- SIX: Assisted Suicide and the Inalienable Right to Life -- SEVEN: Human Organs and Inalienablility -- EIGHT: Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Abstract
This book explains what inalienable rights are and how they restrict the behavior of their possessors. McConnell develops compelling arguments to support the inalienability of the right to life, the right of conscience, and a competent person's right not to have medical treatment administered without consent. Yet, surprisingly, he argues that the inalienability of the right to life does not entail that voluntary euthanasia or assisted suicide are wrong. This distinctive defense of inalienable rights will appeal to medical ethicists and other applied ethicists, political theorists, and philosophers of law.

Local Note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term
Electronic books. -- local.
 
Human rights.
 
Informed consent (Medical law) -- United States.
 
Natural law.

Genre
Electronic books.

Electronic Access
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LibraryMaterial TypeItem BarcodeShelf NumberStatus
IYTE LibraryE-Book1204605-1001KF3827 .I5 -- M39 2000 EBEbrary E-Books