Straehle Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-29794-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Applied Ethics

Vulnerability is an important concern of moral philosophy, political philosophy and many discussions in applied ethics. Yet the concept itself—what it is and why it is morally salient—is under-theorized. Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics brings together theorists working on conceptualizing vulnerability as an action-guiding principle in these discussions, as well as bioethicists, medical ethicists and public policy theorists working on instances of vulnerability in specific contexts. This volume offers new and innovative work by Joel Anderson, Carla Bagnoli, Samia Hurst, Catriona Mackenzie and Christine Straehle, who together provide a discussion of the concept of vulnerability from the perspective of individual autonomy. The exchanges among authors will help show the heuristic value of vulnerability that is being developed in the context of liberal political theory and moral philosophy. The book also illustrates how applying the concept of vulnerability to some of the most pressing moral questions in applied ethics can assist us in making moral judgments. This highly innovative and interdisciplinary approach will help those grappling with questions of vulnerability in medical ethics—both theorists and practitioners—by providing principles along which to decide hard cases.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Straehle, Christine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: A Taxonomy of Vulnerability 1. Vulnerability, Needs and Moral Obligation Catriona Mackenzie 2. Precarious Autonomy, Hazardous Circumstances and the Injustice of Imposed Infeasibility 3. Vulnerability, Autonomy and Agency Christine Straehle 4. Vulnerability and the Incompleteness of Practical Reason Carla Bagnoli Part II: The Concept of Vulnerability and its Applications 5. The Most Vulnerable Patients in Health Care Samia Hurst 6. Vulnerability, Health Care and Need Vida Panitch and L. Chad Horne 7. On the Interrelationship of Vulnerability and Trust Claudia Wiesemann 8. Attending to Vulnerability in Genetic Counseling Michael J. Deem 9. Children’s Vulnerability in Clinical Trials Bobbie Farsides and Katharine Wright 10. Doctrinal Vulnerability and the Authority of Children’s Voices Colin Macleod 11. Beyond Half Measures: Towards a More Comprehensive Response to the Vulnerability of Care Work Patrick Fafard 12. A Vulnerability Approach to Gender Justice Naïma Hamrouni

Über Autor(innen)

Christine Straehle is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, Canada