John W Traphagan

Broschiertes Buch

Rethinking Autonomy

A Critique of Principlism in Biomedical Ethics

Beschreibung

Provides a critique of and alternative to the dominant paradigm used in biomedical ethics by exploring the Japanese concept of autonomy.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 173
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9781438445526
• ISBN-10: 1438445520
• Artikelnr.: 37153637