Tragic Choices
Author: Guido Calabresi
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 039309085X
Category: Business & Economics
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Language: un
Pages: 252
Pages: 252
This book offers a general theoretical account of how societies cope with decisions which they regard as tragic.
Language: en
Pages: 234
Pages: 234
Orentlicher uses controversial life-and-death issues as case studies for evaluating three models for translating principle into practice. Physician-assisted suicide illustrates the application of "generally valid rules," a model that provides predictability and simplicity and, more importantly, avoids the personal biases that influence case-by-case judgments. The author then takes up the
Language: en
Pages: 304
Pages: 304
Thirty years ago, English jurist Patrick Devlin wrote: "Is it not a pleasant tribute to the medical profession that by and large it has been able to manage its relations with its patients ... without the aid of lawyers and law makers". Medical interventions at the beginnings and the endings
Language: en
Pages: 172
Pages: 172
Constitutional 'losers' represent a thorny and longstanding problem in American constitutional law. Here, Emily Calhoun draws upon conflict resolution theory, political theory, and Habermasian discourse theory to argue that in such cases, the Court must work harder to avoid inflicting unnecessary harm on Constitutional losers.
Language: en
Pages: 288
Pages: 288
Facing Up to Scarcity offers a powerful critique of the nonconsequentialist approaches that have been dominant in Anglophone moral and political thought over the last fifty years. In these essays Barbara H. Fried examines the leading schools of contemporary nonconsequentialist thought, including Rawlsianism, Kantianism, libertarianism, and social contractarianism. In the
