James Stacey Taylor

Practical Autonomy and Bioethics

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This is the first volume in which an account of personal autonomy is developed that both captures the contours of this concept as it is used in social philosophy and bioethics, and is theoretically grounded in, and a part of, contemporary autonomy theory. James Stacey Taylor's account is unique as it is explicitly a political one, recognizing that the attribution of autonomy to agents is dependent in part on their relationships with others and not merely upon their own mental states. The volume is distinctive in its examples, which touch on the ethics of using inducements to encourage persons to participate in medical research, the ethical is… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-135-25531-2
EAN: 9781135255312
Produktnummer: 18426033
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 228 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'899 KB

Über den Autor

James Stacey Taylor is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey. He is the author of Stakes and Kidneys (Ashgate, 2005) and the editor of Personal Autonomy: New Essays (Cambridge, 2005).