Background
Wellman, Carl Pierce was born on September 3, 1926 in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Frank and Carolyn (Heath) Wellman.
(Real Rights offers a new theory of the grounds of legal a...)
Real Rights offers a new theory of the grounds of legal and moral rights, thereby providing a platform from which to determine whether alleged rights are "real" or not. In particular, Wellman conceives of a legal or moral right as a complex of liberties, claims, powers, and immunities, and distinguishes the kinds of laws and moral reasons that can ground each of these. The book argues that only agents can be right-holders, that children and the mentally-limited can have only limited rights, while fetuses, the dead, and groups can have none. It also discusses the duties implied by any real right, as well as the kinds of considerations (including conflicting rights) that could override implied duties. This original and systematic discussion of the grounds of rights should interest a wide range of scholars and practitioners in philosophy, law, and political science.
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( The Proliferation of Rights explores how the assertion ...)
The Proliferation of Rights explores how the assertion of rights has expanded dramatically since World War II. Carl Wellman illuminates for the reader the historical developments in each of the major categories of rights, including human rights, civil rights, women's rights, patient rights, and animal rights. He concludes by assessing where this proliferation has been legitimate and helpful, cases where it has been illusory and unproductive, and alternatives to the appeal to rights.
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( Medical Law and Moral Rights discusses live issues aris...)
Medical Law and Moral Rights discusses live issues arising in modern medical practice. Do patients undergoing intolerable irremediable suffering have a moral right to physician-assisted suicide? Ought they to have a comparable legal right? Do the moral duties of a mother to care for and not abuse her child also apply to her fetus? Ought fetuses to be given legal rights requiring pregnant women to submit to medical treatment without their consent? Ought single women, homosexual couples or persons carrying serious genetic defects to have a legal right to procreate? Ought a physician to perform an abortion requested for some frivolous reason? Ought physicians to be permitted to refuse to provide medically futile treatment demanded by their patients? An examination of relevant court cases shows how United States law answers these questions. The author then advocates improvements in the law to make it respect our moral rights more fully. To justify his conclusions, he proposes original conceptions of the human rights to life, procreational autonomy, privacy, equitable treatment and personal security. Thus, these essays test the usefulness of the theory of rights explained and defended in An Approach to Rights and elsewhere.
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Wellman, Carl Pierce was born on September 3, 1926 in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Frank and Carolyn (Heath) Wellman.
Bachelor, University Arizona, 1949. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1951. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1954.
Postgraduate, University Cambridge, England, 1952.
Instructor, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, 1953-1957; assistant professor, Lawrence University, 1957-1962; associate professor, Lawrence University, 1962-1966; professor, department chairman philosophy, Lawrence University, 1966-1968; professor philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis, 1968-1988; Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished professor humanities, Washington University, St. Louis, since 1988. Member review panel research grants National Endowment for Humanities, 1968-1971.
(Real Rights offers a new theory of the grounds of legal a...)
( The Proliferation of Rights explores how the assertion ...)
( Medical Law and Moral Rights discusses live issues aris...)
( Mr. Wellman’s highly original contribution to the relat...)
Member American Philosophical Association, International Association for Philosophy Law and SocialPhilosophy (honorary president). M C.
Married Farnell Parsons, June 20, 1953. Children: Timothy, Philip, Lesley, Christopher.