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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826395403321

Autore

Traphagan John W

Titolo

Rethinking autonomy [[electronic resource] ] : a critique of principlism in biomedical ethics / / John W. Traphagan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2013

ISBN

1-4384-4554-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Disciplina

174.2

Soggetti

Autonomy (Psychology)

Ethics

Medical ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Rethinking Autonomy: A Critique of Principlism in Biomedical Ethics""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1: Inventing Ethics""; ""1.1. The Problem of Common Morality""; ""1.2. Embodied Culture""; ""1.3. Thinking About Culture""; ""1.4. What Is Culture?""; ""1.5. Memory, Culture, Ethics""; ""Chapter 2: Self, Autonomy, and Body""; ""2.1. Principles and Ethics""; ""2.2. Autonomy""; ""2.3. What Is a Human?""; ""2.4. Culture, Mind, and Body""; ""2.5. Categories of Person and Self""; ""2.6. The Nature of Humans""; ""2.7. Mind and Body, Inside and Outside""

""Chapter 3: Autonomy and  Japanese Self-Concepts""""3.1. Self and Other""; ""3.2. The Individual Self""; ""3.3. Self and Childhood Development""; ""3.4. The Processive Self""; ""3.5. Moral Selves and Autonomy""; ""Chapter 4: Autonomies, Virtue, and Social Change""; ""4.1. Self, Virtue, and Character""; ""4.2. Family, Self, Society""; ""4.3. Autonomy, Family, and Social Change""; ""Chapter 5: Mental Health, Suicide, and Self-Centered Behavior""; ""5.1. Self and Other""; ""5.2. Suicide as Medical and Analytical Category""; ""5.3. Suicide and Self-Killing in Japan""; ""5.4. Death""

""Chapter 6: Emotion, Aesthetics, and Moral Action""""6.1. Situational Ethics in Japan""; ""6.2. The Obasuteyama Legend""; ""6.3. Harmony and Sincerity""; ""6.4. Japanese Ethics""; ""Chapter 7: Rethinking Autonomy""; ""References""; ""Index""



Sommario/riassunto

Provides a critique of and alternative to the dominant paradigm used in biomedical ethics by exploring the Japanese concept of autonomy.