Life and Death Decisions The Quest for Morality and Justice in Human Societies 2nd Edition by Sheldon Ekland Olson ISBN 1138808881 978-1138808881

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ISBN 10: 1138808881
ISBN 13: 978-1138808881
Author: Sheldon Ekland Olson

Issues of Life and Death such as abortion, assisted suicide, capital punishment and others are among the most contentious in many societies. Whose rights are protected? How do these rights and protections change over time and who makes those decisions? Based on the author’s award-winning and hugely popular undergraduate course at the University of Texas, this book explores these questions and the fundamentally sociological processes which underlie the quest for morality and justice in human societies. The Author’s goal is not to advocate any particular moral “high ground” but to shed light on the social movements and social processes which are at the root of these seemingly personal moral questions. Under 200 printed pages, this slim paperback is priced and sized to be easily assigned in a variety of undergraduate courses that touch on the social bases underlying these contested and contentious issues.

Life and Death Decisions The Quest for Morality and Justice in Human Societies 2nd Table of contents:

1 A Moral System Evolves

A Single Question

An Exclusionary Movement is Born

A Base of Operation

Framing the Agenda

Branching Out

The Criteria for Exclusion

A Moral Entrepreneur

The Legal Framework Clarifies

A Landmark Case is Contrived

The Floodgates Open

Public Health Measures Go Terribly Wrong

An Awakening

Crystallizing Events and Cultural Lag

Social Worth and Rationed Health Care

Stories Told, Doctrines Explored, Conferences Held

Deference to Doctors

Four Crystallizing Events

The Search for Common Principles

The Belmont Report and the Georgetown Principles

2 The Early Moments and Months of Life Should the Baby Live?

From Comstockery to the Right to Privacy

Potential for Life, Potential for Suffering

Interest Groups Compete

A Bolt from the Blue

Landmark Cases Take Shape

A Clash of Absolutes?

The Power of Empathy

Protests and Rescue Missions

Violence Increases

Taking Lives to Save Lives

The Army of God

Partial-Birth Abortion

Protecting Health as Well as Life

A Strange and Strained Argument

The Political Landscape Shifts

Legal Details

Adapting to a Strange and Strained Decision

Lives Worth Living, Protecting, and Supporting

Regulations Emerge

Nagging Uncertainties—Who Should Decide?

When Doctors Say No

Dealing with Futility and Uncertainty

3 The Boundaries of Tolerable Suffering

Troubling Cases in Troubled Times

The Stages of Suffering

Please Let Me Die

When Life Becomes Vegetative

Prolonged Death and the Public Good

The Right-to-Die Movement Gains Momentum

Public Opinion and Legislative Action

Alleviating Suffering and Protecting Life: Who Decides?

The Supreme Court Weighs In

The Gift of Death

Uncertainty, a Duty to Die, and Rationed Health Care

Lives Less Worthy of Living?

Uncertainty

A Suicide Machine and a Cookbook of Death

A Calmer Voice

A Foothold Is Secured

Unanimous Ambivalence

Voters Decide (Again) and Are Challenged (Again)

4 Taking Life Lynching and Capital Punishment

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 Further Energizes a Movement

A Sense of Injustice and Questioned Legitimacy

A Campaign Is Launched

Efforts Intensify

The Core Question for a Last-Ditch Effort

Arbitrary and Capricious Procedures

Procedures for Taking Life Are Clarified

The Pendulum Swings

Science, Technology, and Innocence

A Messy and Meaningless System

A Watershed Moratorium

Mental Retardation and Age

Uncertain Boundaries, Innocent Lives, Scarce Drugs, and Botched Executions

Epilogue Six Lessons Learned

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