Research Catalog

Title

Rethinking autonomy : a critique of principlism in biomedical ethics / John W. Traphagan.

Author

Traphagan, John W.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2013.

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Description

x, 163 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

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

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 4.Autonomies, Virtue, and Social Change -- 4.1.Self, Virtue, and Character -- 4.2.Family, Self, Society -- 4.3.Autonomy, Family, and Social Change -- 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 -- 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 -- 7.Rethinking Autonomy.

ISBN

• 9781438445526 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1438445520 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781438445533 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1438445539 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012011097

OCLC

790265915

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library