Inalienable Rights : The Limits of Consent in Medicine and the Law.
Title:
Inalienable Rights : The Limits of Consent in Medicine and the Law.
Author:
McConnell, Terrance.
ISBN:
9780195350685
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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.
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