Vulnerability, Autonomy and Applied Ethics
Editor: Christine Straehle
Publisher: Routledge
Print Length: 216 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Philosophy, Political Science, Social Science, Ethics Philosophy, Medical Ethics, Bioethics
Topic: Ethics & Morality, Vulnerability, Self-Determination & Autonomy, Justice, Social Justice, Gender, Medicine & Healthcare, Genetics, Trust, Children & Childhood
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Vulnerability, Autonomy and Applied Ethics — Christine Straehle
Part I: Vulnerability, Individual Agency and Social Justice
1. Vulnerability and the Incompleteness of Practical Reason — Carla Bagnoli
2. Vulnerability, Autonomy and Self-Respect — Christine Straehle
3. Vulnerability, Autonomy Gaps and Social Exclusion — Joel Anderson
4. Ordinary Vulnerability, Institutional Androgyny, and Gender Justice — Naïma Hamrouni
5. Vulnerability, Needs and Moral Obligation — Catriona Mackenzie
6. Vulnerability, Health Care and Need — Vida Panitch and L. Chad Horne
Part II: Vulnerability in Applied Ethics
7. The Most Vulnerable Patients in Health Care — Samia Hurst
8. Vulnerability in Genetic Counseling and the Ground of Nondirectiveness — Michael Deem
9. On the Interrelationship of Vulnerability and Trust — Claudia Wiesemann
10. Doctrinal Vulnerability and the Authority of Children’s Voices — Colin Macleod
11. Children’s Vulnerability in Clinical Trials — Bobbie Farsides
Contributors
Index
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. Her research focuses on the ethics of migration, questions of global justice and conceptions of vulnerability and autonomy in moral philosophy. She is editor or co-editor of three volumes, most recently ‘The Political Philosophy of Refuge’ (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Straehle is an editor for “Global Justice” and a collaborator of the Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉ) of the Université de Montréal. She is also cross-appointed with the department of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. She has held several prestigious fellowships, such as the John Stuart Mill Visiting Chair in Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Hamburg in 2015-2016. In 2017, Straehle was appointed Inaugural Director of the Centre for Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands. She also held the Chair in Philosophy and Public Affairs in the Groningen Faculty of Philosophy.
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