Drugs and Rights Paperback (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy) - Softcover

Husak

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521427274 ISBN 13: 9780521427272

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Do adults have the right to use drugs for recreational purposes? This was the first serious work to address the question, and argues that the 'war on drugs' violates the rights of adults wanting to use drugs for pleasure, and that criminal laws against this use are incompatible with moral rights.

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Críticas

"No one seriously interested in criminal justice in the United States can afford to ignore this book....Husak's book is certainly the best book by a philosopher on the right to drug use in recent years and will hopefully encourage philosophers and others to engage this issue with the kind of critical rigor it surely deserves." David A. J. Richards, Ethics

"Douglas Husak's Drugs and Rights is an extremely interesting and well written inquiry into whether adults have a moral right to the use of recreational drugs....While Husak primarily wants to make his case on moral grounds, this book also provides a useful overview of what we know about those who use drugs. The skillful blending of moral philosophy with empirical social science is certainly one of the strengths of this work....One can only hope that before we fight another losing battle in the drug war, Husak's analysis is given a wide reading." Donald W. Crowley, Legal Studies Forum

"[A] sensitive and reasoned contribution...to an area of debate far too often clouded by prejudice and collective hysteria." Will Self, Times Literary Supplement

Contraportada

This is not a polemical tract but a scrupulously argued work of philosophy that takes full account of all available data concerning drug use in the United States today. The author is careful to describe the properties a recreational drug would have to possess before the state would be justified in prohibiting it.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521427274
• ISBN 13: 9780521427272
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 324