Affiliation:
1. Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Abstract
Abstract
The practice of health-care professional involvement in capital punishment has come under scrutiny since the implementation of lethal injection as a method of execution, raising questions of the goals of medicine and the ethics of medicalized procedures. The American Medical Association and other professional associations have issued statements prohibiting physician involvement in capital punishment because medicine is dedicated to preserving life. I address the three primary arguments against health-care professionals being involved in lethal injection (healing, trust, and nonmaleficence) and argue that they are not strong enough to prohibit physician involvement in the lethal injection process.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Philosophy,General Medicine,Issues, ethics and legal aspects
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