The perversion of autonomy : coercion and constraints in a liberal society / Willard Gaylin & Bruce Jennings.
2003
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Author
Title
The perversion of autonomy : coercion and constraints in a liberal society / Willard Gaylin & Bruce Jennings.
Published
Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2003]
Copyright
©2003
Call Number
JC599.U5 G36 2003
Edition
Revised and expanded.
ISBN
0878409068 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
x, 293 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)50519243
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-280) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1
Freedom, Coercion, and Commonsense Morality
1
Pt. I
The Culture of Autonomy
2
A Self of One's Own: The Meaning of Autonomy
27
3
Land of the Free: Autonomy in American Life Today
47
4
Seduced by Autonomy: Heeding the Grand Inquisitor and Other Critics
67
Pt. II
The Biological Limits of Autonomy
5
It's Only Human Nature
85
6
Growing Up Good
99
7
Irrational Man
119
Pt. III
The Ethical Limits of Autonomy and the Uses of Coercion
8
The Multiple Meanings of Coercion
143
9
In Defense of Social Control: The Ethics of Coercion
165
10
Autonomy Gone Bonkers: The Mentally Impaired
189
11
Last Rights I: Decisions to Forgo Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment
213
12
Last Rights II: Autonomy, Moral Trespass, and Physician-Assisted Suicide
229
13
Beyond Autonomy: Toward an Ethic of Interdependence
251
Notes
269
Index
281