Onora O'Neill, O'Neill Onora

Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Argues against the conceptions of individual autonomy which are widely relied on in bioethics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9780521815406
• ISBN-10: 0521815401
• Artikelnr.: 23034844

Autorenporträt

Onora O'Neill is Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, and has written widely on ethics and political philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Frontispiece
1. Gaining autonomy and losing trust?
2. Autonomy, individuality and consent
3. 'Reproductive autonomy' and new technologies
4. Principled autonomy
5. Principled autonomy and genetic technologies
6. The quest for trustworthiness
7. Trust and the limits of consent
8. Trust and communication: the media and bioethics
Bibliography
Institutional bibliography
Index.