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Vulnerability is an important concern of moral philosophy, political philosophy and many discussions in applied ethics. Yet the concept itself—what it is and why it is morally salient—is under-theorized. Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics brings together theorists working on conceptualizing vulnerability as an action-guiding principle in these discussions, as well as bioethicists, medical ethicists and public policy theorists working on instances of vulnerability in specific contexts. This volume offers new and innovative work by Joel Anderson, Carla Bagnoli, Samia Hurst, Catriona Mackenzie and Christine Straehle, who together provide a discussion of the concept of vulnerability from the perspective of individual autonomy. The exchanges among authors will help show the heuristic value of vulnerability that is being developed in the context of liberal political theory and moral philosophy. The book also illustrates how applying the concept of vulnerability to some of the most pressing moral questions in applied ethics can assist us in making moral judgments. This highly innovative and interdisciplinary approach will help those grappling with questions of vulnerability in medical ethics—both theorists and practitioners—by providing principles along which to decide hard cases.
Contents
Introduction
Christine Straehle
Part I: Vulnerability, Individual Agency and Social Justice
Chapter 1: Vulnerability and the Incompleteness of Practical Reason
Carla Bagnoli
Chapter 2: Vulnerability, Autonomy and Sense of Self
Christine Straehle
Chapter 3: Precarious autonomy, hazardous circumstances, and the injustice of imposed infeasibility
Joel Anderson
Chapter 4: Ordinary Vulnerability, Institutional Androgyny and Gender Justice
Naïma Hamrouni
Chapter 5: Vulnerability, Needs and Moral Obligation
Catrion Mackenzie
Chapter 6: Vulnerability, Health Care and Need
Vida Panitch and Chad Horne
Part II: Vulnerability in Applied Ethics
Chapter 7: The most vulnerable patients in health care
Samia Hurst
Chapter 8: Vulnerability in Genetic Counseling and the Ground of Nondirectiveness
Michael Deem
Chapter 9: On the Relationship between Vulnerability and Trust
Claudia Wiesemann
Chapter 10: Doctrinal Vulnerability and the Authority of Children's Voices
Colin Macleod
Chapter 11: Children's Vulnerability in Clinical Trials
Bobbie Farsides
