Harm to Self

This is the third volume of Joel Feinberg's highly regarded The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law a four-volume series in which he skillfully addresses a complex question: What kinds of conduct may the state make criminal without infringing on the moral autonomy of individual citizens? In Harm to Self Feinberg discusses various problems about self-inflicted harm covering such topics as legal paternalism personal sovereignty and its boundaries voluntariness and assumptions of risk consent and its counterfeits coercive force incapacity and choice of death.