دانلود کتاب Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides? Abortion, Assisted Dying, Capital Punishment, and Torture

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Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Brief Contents
Detailed Contents
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
1 A Single Question
A Moral System Evolves
The Early Moments and Months of Life
The Boundaries of Tolerable Suffering
Taking Life and Inflicting Suffering
The Single Question
PART I A Moral System Evolves
2 An Exclusionary Movement is Born
Some Lives Are More Worthy Than Others
Eugenics Becomes a Duty
A Base of Operation
Framing the Agenda
Branching Out
The Criteria for Exclusion
3 Legal Reform to Eliminate Defectives
How to Limit Defectives
A Moral Entrepreneur Reviews the Landscape
Framing a Legitimized Logic of Exclusion
A Receptive Exclusionary Climate
Mobilizing Resources and Networks of Support
The Legal Framework Clarifies
A Landmark Case is Contrived
The Floodgates Open
Public-Health Measures Go Terribly Wrong
4 Redrawing the Boundaries of Protected Life
An Awakening
Science, Technology, and Cultural Lag
A Crystallizing Event and Rationing Health Care
Social Worth and Rationed Health Care
Stories are Told, Doctrines Explored
The Decade of Conferences
Flawed Judgment and Sloppy Science
Harvesting for Life
Deference to Doctors
A Harvard Committee Redefines Death
A Paradigm for Protected Life
5 Crystallizing Events and Ethical Principles
A Term is Coined
Two Centers Frame the Debate
Four Crystallizing Events
The Search for Common Principles
The Belmont Report and the Georgetown Principles
Bioethics in Action
PART II The Early Moments and Months of Life
6 A Bolt from the Blue: Abortion is Legalized
From Comstockery to the Right to Privacy
Potential for Life, Potential for Suffering
A Social Movement Splinters
A Bolt from the Blue
7 Man’s Law or God’s Will
Landmark Cases Take Shape
Legitimacy Questioned
A Clash of Absolutes?
The Power of Empathy
Protests and Rescue Missions
Violence Increases
Operation Rescue
Roe Reexamined
The Summer of Mercy
Taking Lives to Save Lives
The Army of God
8 Inches from Life
Words and Images
Protecting Health as well as Life
The Political Landscape
A Strange and Strained Argument
The Political Landscape Shifts
Legal Details
Adapting to a Strange and Strained Decision
9 Should the Baby Live?
Lives Worth Living, Protecting, and Supporting
Regulations Emerge
Nagging Uncertainties—Who Should Decide?
When Doctors Say No
Dealing with Futility
Dealing with Uncertainty
PART III The Boundaries of Tolerable Suffering
10 Limits to Tolerable Suffering
The Boundaries of Tolerable Suffering
Troubling Cases in Troubled Times
The Stages of Suffering
Please Let Me Die
When Life Becomes Vegetative
11 Alleviating Suffering and Protecting Life
Prolonged Death and the Public Good
The Right-to-Die Movement Gains Momentum
Public Opinion and Legislative Action
California Takes the Lead
Alleviating Suffering and Protecting Life: Who Decides?
The Supreme Court Weighs In
The Gift of Death
12 God, Duty, and Life Worth Living
Belief in an Efficacious, Caring God
Uncertainty, a Duty to Die, and Rationed Health Care
Lives Less Worthy of Living?
Death with Dignity
13 Assisted Dying
Social Movements Realign
A First-Hand Account Stimulates Debate
A Suicide Machine and a Cookbook of Death
A Calmer Voice
A Foothold is Secured
Is There a Right to Assisted Suicide?
Unanimous Ambivalence
Voters Decide (Again) and Are Challenged (Again)
PART IV Taking Life and Inflicting Suffering
14 Removing the Protective Boundaries of Life
Lynching and the Margins of Life
Crystallizing Events on the Road to Reform
Evolving Protections for Those on the Margins
Another Crystallizing Event
Stark Inhumanity Energizes a Movement
Reform Efforts Coalesce
15 A Campaign to Stop the Executions
A Sense of Injustice and Questioned Legitimacy
Remaining Legacy of a Misguided Chivalry
A Campaign is Launched
Efforts Intensify
The Core Question for a Last-Ditch Effort
Arbitrary and Capricious Procedures
Justifications for Taking Life Are Clarified
16 The Pendulum Swings, the Debate Continues
The Pendulum Swings
Science, Technology, and Innocence
A Messy and Meaningless System
A Watershed Decision
Mental Retardation and Age
Uncertain Boundaries, Innocent Lives, Scarce Drugs, and Botched Executions
17 Justifying Torture
Narrowing the Justification of Torture
A Cultural Trauma
The Boundaries between Us and Them
Drawing the Boundaries
Rethinking the Rock-Solid Prohibition of Torture
A Sliding Scale for Torture
Enhanced Interrogation Gone Bad
The Power of Popular Culture
The Senate Becomes Concerned
The Debate Continues
Tension Remains
18 Lessons Learned
Lesson One: The Power of Assessed Social Worth
Lesson Two: Change Comes Along a Jagged and Contentious Path
Lesson Three: The Importance of Analogies, Metaphors, Images and Stories
Lesson Four: Who Decides?
Lesson Five: Dilemmas Lead to Cyclical Change
Lesson Six: Tension Remains
Index