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Autonomy and trust in bioethics /

In this important book, Onora O'Neill suggests that the conceptions of individual autonomy so widely relied on in bioethics are philosophically and ethically inadequate, and that they undermine rather than support relations of trust. Her book will appeal to a wide range of readers in ethics, bi...

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Main Author: O'Neill, Onora, 1941-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Medical ethics.
Bioethics.
Bioethics > Philosophy.
Autonomy.
Trust.
Bioethical Issues
Ethics, Medical
Interpersonal Relations
Personal Autonomy
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0511020082
9780511020087
0511030444
9780511030444
0511045778
9780511045776
0511157150
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9780511606250
0511606257
9780521815406
0521815401
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9781280434211
9780521894531
0521894530
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9781107125988
0511176384
9780511176388
0511329555
9780511329555
9786610434213
6610434212
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Gaining autonomy and losing trust?
  • Contemporary bioethics
  • Medical ethics and environmental ethics
  • Trust in the risk society
  • Judging reliability and placing trust
  • Trust and autonomy in medical ethics
  • Varieties of autonomy
  • Autonomy, individuality and consent
  • The origins of individual autonomy
  • Individual autonomy in a naturalistic setting: Mill
  • The triumph of autonomy
  • The triumph of informed consent
  • Impaired capacities to consent
  • Consent and opacity
  • The consumer view of autonomy
  • 'Reproductive autonomy' and new technologies
  • Autonomy and twentieth-century reproduction
  • The 'right to choose': contraception
  • The 'right to choose': abortion
  • The 'right to choose': assisted reproductive technologies
  • Reproductive choice and parenthood
  • The limits of reproductive autonomy
  • Reprogenetics and procreative autonomy
  • Principled autonomy
  • The failings of individual autonomy
  • Human rights as a basic framework?
  • Grounding human rights in the good
  • Grounding human rights in human obligations
  • Kant and principled autonomy
  • Principled autonomy and human obligations
  • Taking principled autonomy seriously
  • Principled autonomy, obligations and rights
  • Principled autonomy and genetic technologies
  • Beyond individual autonomy
  • Principled autonomy, deception and trust
  • Genetic technologies
  • Genetic exceptionalism
  • Genetic profiling: uninterpreted genetic data
  • Genetic testing: interpreted genetic information
  • Trust, genetics and insurance.

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