The Ethics of End-of-Life Care for Prison Inmates
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- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
- Vol. 27 (3) , 252-259
Abstract
Author contends that the philosophical arguments involving the value of persons, social contract theory, the definition of justice, the notion of just desserts, and a utilitarian calculus of societal benefits and burdens provide support for an ethical imperative to provide end-of-life cam to dying prisoners.Keywords
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