"Capital Punishment" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The use of the death penalty for certain crimes.
| Descriptor ID |
D002203
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.880.604.160
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| Concept/Terms |
Capital Punishment- Capital Punishment
- Capital Punishments
- Punishment, Capital
- Punishments, Capital
- Death Penalty
- Death Penalties
- Penalties, Death
- Penalty, Death
Gas Chamber Execution- Gas Chamber Execution
- Chamber Execution, Gas
- Execution, Gas Chamber
- Executions, Gas Chamber
- Gas Chamber Executions
Lethal Injection- Lethal Injection
- Injection, Lethal
- Injections, Lethal
- Lethal Injections
Electrocution, Judicial- Electrocution, Judicial
- Electrocutions, Judicial
- Judicial Electrocution
- Judicial Electrocutions
Hanging, Judicial- Hanging, Judicial
- Hangings, Judicial
- Judicial Hanging
- Judicial Hangings
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Capital Punishment" by people in Profiles.
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Combat veterans and the death penalty: a forensic neuropsychiatric perspective. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2010; 38(3):407-14.
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Damned if you do and damned if you don't: medical ethics and a second career. J Vasc Surg. 2005 Mar; 41(3):556-8.
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Physicians' willingness to participate in the process of lethal injection for capital punishment. Ann Intern Med. 2001 Nov 20; 135(10):884-8.
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Physicians' attitudes about involvement in lethal injection for capital punishment. Arch Intern Med. 2000 Oct 23; 160(19):2912-6.