Download or read book Harm to Self written by Tucson Joel Feinberg Professor of Philosophy University of Arizona and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986-07-24 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third volume of Joel Feinberg's highly regarded The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, a four-volume series in which Feinberg 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 offers insightful commentary into various notions attached to 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.