Rethinking autonomy : a critique of principlism in biomedical ethics /

Traphagan, John W.

Rethinking autonomy : a critique of principlism in biomedical ethics / John W. Traphagan. - Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (x, 163 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographies and index.

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 Development3.4. 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 AutonomyReferences; Index.



9781461919414 9781438445540


Medical ethics.
Ethics--Cross-cultural studies.
Autonomy (Psychology)
Bioethics.
Cross-cultural studies.
Bioethics
Anthropology, Medical--ethics
Bioethical Issues
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Personal Autonomy


Electronic Books.

R724 / .R484 2013