Research Catalog

Title

• On complicity and compromise / Chiara Lepora and Robert E. Goodin.

Author

Lepora, Chiara

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Details

Additional Authors

Goodin, Robert E.

Description

vii, 181 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Drawing on philosophy, law and political science, and on a wealth of practical experience delivering emergency medical services in conflict-ridden settings, Lepora and Goodin untangle the complexities surrounding compromise and complicity.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Alternative Title

On complicity & compromise

Subject

• Ethics, Medical
• Human rights > Moral and ethical aspects
• Medical ethics
• Medical ethics > Philosophy
• Volunteer workers in medical care

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction: a messy moral landscape -- 2. Compromise as a template -- 3. Complicity and its conceptual cousins -- 4. Grading engagement with wrongdoing: dimensions of difference -- 5. Responsibility for complicity: a minimum threshold -- 6. Assessing acts of complicity: a general framework -- 7. Organizational complicity: Rwandan refugee camps -- 8. Individual complicity: the tortured patient (Chiara Lepora and Joseph Millum) -- 9. Conclusion: complicity is as complicity does.

ISBN

• 0199677905
• 9780199677900

OCLC

812406803

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library