Sheldon Ekland-Olson joined the University of Texas at Austin after completing his graduate work at the University of Washington in Seattle and Yale Law School. He is currently the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Centennial Professor of Liberal Arts and serving as the Director of the School of Human Ecology. For 5 years, he served as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and then for 8 years as Executive Vice President and Provost of the university. He has authored or co-authored several books and numerous articles on criminal justice, prison reform, and capital punishment. Widely recognized for his commitment to teaching undergraduates, he is the recipient of numerous teaching awards. His current interests are reflected in the book, Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides?: An exploration of how communities have gone about justifying the violation of universally held moral imperatives.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSDetailed ContentsPreface to the Third EditionPreface to the Second EditionAcknowledgmentsChapter 1 A Single Question PART I: A Moral System Evolves Chapter 2 An Exclusionary Movement is Born Chapter 3 Legal Reform to Eliminate Defectives Chapter 4 Redrawing the Boundaries of Protected Life Chapter 5 Crystallizing Events and Ethical PrinciplesPART II: The Early Moments and Months of Life Chapter 6 A Bolt from the Blue: Abortion is LegalizedChapter 7 Man’s Law or God’s WillChapter 8 Inches from LifeChapter 9 Should the Baby Live? PART III: The Boundaries of Tolerable Suffering Chapter 10 Limits to Tolerable SufferingChapter 11 Alleviating Suffering and Protecting LifeChapter 12 God, Duty, and Life Worth Living Chapter 13 Assisted DyingPART IV: Taking Life and Inflicting SufferingChapter 14 Removing the Protective Boundaries of LifeChapter 15 A Campaign to Stop the ExecutionsChapter 16 The Pendulum Swings, the Debate ContinuesChapter 17 Justifying TortureChapter 18 Lessons LearnedIndex

Sheldon Ekland-Olson joined the University of Texas at Austin after completing his graduate work at the University of Washington in Seattle and Yale Law School. He is currently the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Centennial Professor of Liberal Arts and serving as the Director of the School of Human Ecology. For 5 years, he served as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and then for 8 years as Executive Vice President and Provost of the university. He has authored or co-authored several books and numerous articles on criminal justice, prison reform, and capital punishment. Widely recognized for his commitment to teaching undergraduates, he is the recipient of numerous teaching awards. His current interests are reflected in the book, Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides?: An exploration of how communities have gone about justifying the violation of universally held moral imperatives.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSDetailed ContentsPreface to the Third EditionPreface to the Second EditionAcknowledgmentsChapter 1 A Single Question PART I: A Moral System Evolves Chapter 2 An Exclusionary Movement is Born Chapter 3 Legal Reform to Eliminate Defectives Chapter 4 Redrawing the Boundaries of Protected Life Chapter 5 Crystallizing Events and Ethical PrinciplesPART II: The Early Moments and Months of Life Chapter 6 A Bolt from the Blue: Abortion is LegalizedChapter 7 Man’s Law or God’s WillChapter 8 Inches from LifeChapter 9 Should the Baby Live? PART III: The Boundaries of Tolerable Suffering Chapter 10 Limits to Tolerable SufferingChapter 11 Alleviating Suffering and Protecting LifeChapter 12 God, Duty, and Life Worth Living Chapter 13 Assisted DyingPART IV: Taking Life and Inflicting SufferingChapter 14 Removing the Protective Boundaries of LifeChapter 15 A Campaign to Stop the ExecutionsChapter 16 The Pendulum Swings, the Debate ContinuesChapter 17 Justifying TortureChapter 18 Lessons LearnedIndex

Sheldon Ekland-Olson joined the University of Texas at Austin after completing his graduate work at the University of Washington in Seattle and Yale Law School. He is currently the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Centennial Professor of Liberal Arts and serving as the Director of the School of Human Ecology. For 5 years, he served as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and then for 8 years as Executive Vice President and Provost of the university. He has authored or co-authored several books and numerous articles on criminal justice, prison reform, and capital punishment. Widely recognized for his commitment to teaching undergraduates, he is the recipient of numerous teaching awards. His current interests are reflected in the book, Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides?: An exploration of how communities have gone about justifying the violation of universally held moral imperatives.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSDetailed ContentsPreface to the Third EditionPreface to the Second EditionAcknowledgmentsChapter 1 A Single Question PART I: A Moral System Evolves Chapter 2 An Exclusionary Movement is Born Chapter 3 Legal Reform to Eliminate Defectives Chapter 4 Redrawing the Boundaries of Protected Life Chapter 5 Crystallizing Events and Ethical PrinciplesPART II: The Early Moments and Months of Life Chapter 6 A Bolt from the Blue: Abortion is LegalizedChapter 7 Man’s Law or God’s WillChapter 8 Inches from LifeChapter 9 Should the Baby Live? PART III: The Boundaries of Tolerable Suffering Chapter 10 Limits to Tolerable SufferingChapter 11 Alleviating Suffering and Protecting LifeChapter 12 God, Duty, and Life Worth Living Chapter 13 Assisted DyingPART IV: Taking Life and Inflicting SufferingChapter 14 Removing the Protective Boundaries of LifeChapter 15 A Campaign to Stop the ExecutionsChapter 16 The Pendulum Swings, the Debate ContinuesChapter 17 Justifying TortureChapter 18 Lessons LearnedIndex