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

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