Research Catalog

Title

The perversion of autonomy : coercion and constraints in a liberal society / Willard Gaylin & Bruce Jennings.

Author

Gaylin, Willard

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors

Jennings, Bruce, 1949-

Description

x, 293 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Ethics
• Freedom
• Public Policy
• Social Responsibility
• Personal Autonomy
• Coercion
• Bioethical Issues
• Behavior Control
• Individualism > United States
• Libertarianism > United States
• Civil society > United States
• Social ethics > United States
• Involuntary treatment > United States
• Ethical Analysis
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Freedom, coercion, and commonsense morality -- A self of one's own : the meaning of autonomy -- Land of the free : autonomy in American life today -- Seduced by autonomy : heeding the Grand Inquisitor and other critics -- It's only human nature -- Growing up good -- Irrational man -- The multiple meanings of coercion -- In defense of social control : the ethics of coercion -- Autonomy gone bonkers : the mentally impaired -- Last rights I : decisions to forgo life-sustaining treatment -- Last rights II : autonomy, moral trespass, and physician-assisted suicide -- Beyond autonomy : toward an ethic of interdependence.

ISBN

0878409068 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002013910

OCLC

• 50519243
• SCSB-10033704

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library