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Author O'Neill, Onora, 1941-

Title Autonomy and trust in bioethics / Onora O'Neill
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 213 pages) : illustrations
Series Gifford lectures ; 2001
Gifford lectures ; 2001.
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
Summary 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, bioethics and related disciplines
Analysis Humaniora Filosofi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Medical ethics.
Bioethics.
Bioethics -- Philosophy
Autonomy.
Trust.
Bioethical Issues
Ethics, Medical
Interpersonal Relations
Personal Autonomy
MEDICAL -- Ethics.
Autonomy
Bioethics
Bioethics -- Philosophy
Medical ethics
Trust
Autonomie
Bioethik
Medizinische Ethik
Vertrauen
Selbstbestimmung
Autonomie (algemeen)
Bio-ethiek.
Medische ethiek.
Vertrouwen.
Éthique médicale.
Bioéthique -- Philosophie.
Autonomie (psychologie)
Confiance.
Form Electronic book
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