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Pain, Death, and the Law
Austin Sarat, EditorThis collection of essays examines the relationship between pain, death, and the law and addresses the question of how the law constructs pain and death as jurisprudential facts. The empirical focus of these essays enables the reader to delve into both the history and the theoretical complexities of the pain-death-law relationship. The combination of the theoretical and the empirical broadens the contribution this volume will undoubtedly make to debates in which the right to live or die is the core issue at hand.
This volume will be an important read for policy makers and legal practitioners and a valuable text for courses in law, the social sciences, and the humanities.
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College.
This volume will be an important read for policy makers and legal practitioners and a valuable text for courses in law, the social sciences, and the humanities.
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College.
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Contents
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Introduction: On Pain and Death as Facts of Legal Life: Austin Sarat
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The Problem of Pain in Punishment: Historical Perspectives: Karl Shoemaker
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Killing Me Softly: Capital Punishment and the Technologies for Taking Life: Austin Sarat
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What the Law Must Not Hear: On Capital Punishment and the Voice of Pain: Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn
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The Sacred Name of Pain: The Role of Victim Impact Evidence in Death Penalty Sentencing Decisions: Jennifer L. Culbert
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The Problem of Pain and the Right to Die: Shai J. Lavi
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Contributors
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Index
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Published: 2001
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-09767-8 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-02285-4 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-06767-1 (paper)