The Variables of Moral Capacity
Published on 8. December 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
X, 334 pages
978-90-481-6677-0 (ISBN)
Description
Moral capacity is an important feature of what it means to be human. In this volume, the contributors have taken on the daunting task of trying to distinguish between legal and moral capacity. This distinction is difficult at times for clinicians, philosophers and legal scholars alike. Part of the challenge of defining moral capacity lies in the difficulty of adequately categorizing it. For this reason, the editors have chosen to divide the book into three parts. The first looks at the concepts involved in the discussion of moral capacity; the second considers the role of moral capacity in the lives of professionals; and the final part reflects on case studies of moral capacity or incapacity illustrating the challenge that moral capacity presents - its definition lying between two seemingly incommensurable models, those of the threshold and continuum.
This volume takes a multidisciplinary approach to the subject, and ties the disciplines of medicine, philosophy and law into the health context. It will be of interest to medical health professionals as well as researchers working in the areas of philosophy and law.
This volume takes a multidisciplinary approach to the subject, and ties the disciplines of medicine, philosophy and law into the health context. It will be of interest to medical health professionals as well as researchers working in the areas of philosophy and law.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2004
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
Illustrations
X, 334 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-481-6677-0 (9789048166770)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4020-2552-5
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The Variables of Moral Capacity
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Springer
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Content
One: Challenges of Moral Capacity.- 1: Choices, Autonomy, and Moral Capacity.- 2: Self-Conceptions, Agency, and the Value of Individual Persons.- 3: Kohlberg and the Structural-Developmental Approach to Moral Psychology.- 4: Morality and Selfhood: Contributions from Moral Psychology.- 5: Developing Moral Capacity from Childhood to Young Adulthood.- 6: A Dream of Dirty Hands: Moral Conflict and Personal Conscience.- 7: Capacity Is Not In Your Head: Why It Can Be a Mistake to Request a Psychiatric Consultation to Determine Capacity.- 8: How Not to Philosophize With a Hammer: Reply to Spike.- 9: How Not to Philosophize With a Hammer: Reply to Montgomery.- Two: Professional Morality and Criteria for Health Care Decisions.- 10: Moral Capacity: The Tension Between Professional Nurture and Universal Nature.- 11: Some Ethical Principles for Adult Critical Care.- 12: The Influence of Pressure on Nurses' Moral Capacity.- 13: Surrogate Decision Making: A Case for Boundaries.- 14: Knowing Well or Living Well: Is Competence Relevant to Moral Experience and Capacity in Clinical Decision-Making.- 15: Vulnerable Persons: Measuring Moral Capacity.- 16: Vulnerability in Research Subjects: An Analytical Approach.- Three: Reflections on Moral Incapacity.- 17: The Bad Brain: Biology of Moral Thinking.- 18: Moral and Ethical Capacities of the Psychopath: An Integrated View.- 19: The Moral Competence of Serial Killers: A Preliminary Exploration.- 20: Moral Capacities of Psychotic and Addicted Individuals.- 21: Morality As Impulse and Ethics As "Thinking" About Morality: A Psychoanalytic Perspective.