Pain, Death, and the Law

Index

Index Abortion, 5 Abuse, victims of, 128-31 Adam and Eve, 72 African-Americans, 116-17 Agency, 73, 80 AIDS, 73n. 6, 139, 156 Alienation, 4 Almojera, Belle, 44, 46 American colonies, 15,52 Anesthesia, 75 Anger, 130-31 Aquinas, Thomas, 29-31, 33 Arendt, Hannah, 120, 125, 159n. 56 Ascetic ideal, 134 Augustine, 30 Autonomy, 130 Baay, William, 47 Baldus study, 116 Beatitudes, 34 Beccaria, Bonesana Cesare Marchese Oi,37-39 Bedau, Hugo, 51 Beezer, Justice, 58-61, 63 Behaviorism, 91 Bendor, Chaterine, 117, 132 Benevolence, 19 Bentham, Jeremy, 39-40, 121-22, 143-46 Berger, Vivian, 131 Bern, Walter, 130 Biomedical research, 74, 76-77,9D-92 Blackmun, Harry, 68-69 Blackstone, William, 37-39 Blanchard, Arlene, 47 Blanchot, Maurice, 1 Body: Augustine on, 30; Foucault on, 24-25; invisible, of the condemned, 53-57; in pain, 57-66; Pascal on, 72; political technology of, 25; and the power of law, 43; referential instability of, 101; sentimentalized, 5; and the soul, relation of, 30, 32. See also Pain; Pleasure Body in Pain (Scarry), 10, 93-101, 120-21, 124-26 Booth, John, 105-13 Booth v. Maryland, 103, lo4n. 3, 105-13, 120n. 37, 127-29 Bourgeois class, 22 Bronstein, Irvine, 105 Bronstein, Rose, 105 Burton, Justice, 56-57 Bush, Jeb, 81, 82 Butterworth, Robert, 43 California, 61-63 Campbell v. Wood, 11,57-59, 63-64, 66, 69 Camus, Albert, 115, 126 Cancer, 139, 156 Capitalism, 22 Capital punishment: and the body in pain, 57-66; as a hidden reality, 51-52; Kaufman-Osborn on, 11-13, 71-102; and modernist pain, 72-78; Saraton,10-11,43-70;Shoemaker on, 9-10, 15-42; and victim impact evidence, 12-13, 103-39 Carpenter, Mary, 38 Cartesianism, 80, 95 Catholicism, 72-73, 140 Christ, 28, 72, 151. See also Christianity Christianity, 10, 18, 37; opposition of, to specific forms of punishment, 28; and right-to-die cases, 140, 151, 152-54; Shoemaker on, 20-21, 28-30, 32; and the use of the word pain, 98-99. See also Christ; Theology Christie, Nils, 27-28, 35 Christopher, Charisse, 106-7 Christopher, Nicholas, 106-7, 129 Civilization, notion of, 68 Cognitive styles, 16, 22-24, 26 Commercial Advertiser, 79 Commodity, pain as a, 27-28 Compassion, 55 Comprehensive doctrines, 104 Congress (United States), 112 Conroy, Claire, 140-42, 145-46, 159 Constitution: and capital punishment , 58, 60-61; Eighth Amendment , 55n. 63,59-60, 1°3-13; and electrocution, 53-55; Fourteenth Amendment, 54n. 57; and methods of hanging, 58-60; and victim impact evidence, 107-10,112,121 Constructivism, 97 Contract law doctrine, 23 Corporal punishment, 39-40 Cosmology, 79 Courage, 21 Cover, Robert, 1-2, 7, 71,96 Crucifixion, 72 Culbert, Jennifer L., 12-14, 1°3-32 Damiens, 78-79, 101-2 Dante, 10,17,28-29,30-34 Davis, Allen Lee, 63-64, 81-92, 101 Death penalty: and the body in pain, 57-66; as a hidden reality, 51-52; Kaufman-Osborn on, 11-13, 71-102; and modernist pain, 72-78; INDEX Saraton, 10-11, 43-70; Shoemaker on, 9-10, 15-42; and victim impact evidence, 12-13,103-39 Decency, standards of, 59, 87 Declaration of Independence, 121 Derteau, Michel de, 43 Dickens, Charles, 36 Dictionnaire de theologie, 72 , 98 Disaggregation of the act of killing, 85-86 Discipline and Punish (Foucault), 24-25,78 Divine Comedy (Dante), 28-29, 32. See also Dante Dix, Dorothy, 40 Durkheim, Emile, 25-26 Eighth Amendment, 55n. 63, 59-60, 103-13. See also Constitution Electrocution: Hyde on, 67-68; Kaufman -Osborn on, 81-92; and the politicization of pain, 101; and the Provenzano opinion, 63-64; Sarat on,10,44-45,48-49,52,55-57, 63-69; Shaw on, 63-65, 69 Elias, Norbert, 20 Empathy, 5, 68 Enlightenment, 19-20, 23-24, 26, 28, 32 ,38-41 Epistemology: Foucault on, 26; Kaufman -Osborn on, 78, 85; and rightto -die cases, 146, 158; Sarat on, 66; Shoemaker on, 16,26 Essentialism, 95-96 Ethics, 20. See also Morality Etiology, 74 Etymology, 98 Euthanasia, 5, 148-49. See also Rightto -die cases Euthanasia: or, Medical Treatment in Aid ofan Easy Death (Munk), 148-49 Evidence, victim impact, 12-13, 103-39; and Booth v. Maryland, 103, INDEX 104n·3,105-13,120n·37,127-29; and the cause of pain, 126-31; definition of, 103; and irrefutable pain, 124-26...