Inalienable Rights - The Limits of Consent in Medicine and Law

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Presents the argument that inalienable rights differ from other types of rights in that, rather than restraining the behaviour of others, inalienable rights seem to put limits on the possessors themselves, because even the possessor's consent does not justify others in encroaching on them.

Product details

• Authors: Terrance McConnell, Terrance (Professor of Philosophy McConnell, Terrance C. Mcconnell
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2000
• EAN: 9780195134629
• ISBN: 978-0-19-513462-9
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; MEDICAL / Ethics, LAW / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Law As It Applies To Other Professions, Law as it applies to other professions and disciplines