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Rethinking Autonomy - A Critique of Principlism in Biomedical Ethics (Hardcover, New)
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Rethinking Autonomy - A Critique of Principlism in Biomedical Ethics (Hardcover, New)
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This groundbreaking book offers a critical examination of the
concept of autonomy, one with major implications for biomedical
ethics. Working from the perspectives of ethnography and medical
anthropology, John W. Traphagan argues that the notion of autonomy
as a foundational principle of a common morality, the view dominant
in North America, is inadequate as a universal moral category
because culture deeply influences how people think about autonomy
and the fundamental nature of being human. Drawing from fieldwork
in Japan, Traphagan reveals a notably different sensibility,
demonstrating how Japanese moral concepts and actions are based
upon a deep awareness of the social embeddedness of people and an
aesthetic sensitivity that emphasizes context and situation over
universality in making moral evaluations of behavior. Traphagan
develops data from Japan into a critical examination of how
scholarly research in biomedical ethics, and ethics more generally,
is conducted in North America. Arguing in a vein related to the
emerging area of naturalized biomedical ethics, Traphagan proposes
the creation of an empirically grounded study of moral behavior.
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