Rethinking Autonomy
A Critique of Principlism in Biomedical Ethics
1st Edition
Published on 13. December 2012
173 pages
978-1-4384-4554-0 (ISBN)
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Provides a critique of and alternative to the dominant paradigm used in biomedical ethics by exploring the Japanese concept of autonomy.
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John W. Traphagan is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and also Secretary General of the Japan Anthropology Workshop. He is the author of Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan and the coeditor of Imagined Families, Lived Families: Culture and Kinship in Contemporary Japan (with Akiko Hashimoto); Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan: Concepts of Tradition and Modernity in Practice (with Christopher S. Thompson); and Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society (with John Knight), all published by SUNY Press.
Content
Acknowledgments
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 a 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
References
Index
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 a 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
References
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