The concept of autonomy in bioethics: An unwarranted fall from grace

Personal Autonomy: New Essays on Personal Autonomy and its Role in Contemporary Moral Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 299-309

  May, Thomas ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511614194.014     Document Type: Chapter

References (23)

1. Mark G. Kuczewski, “Can Communitarianism Endthe Shrill andInter-minable Public Debates?” in Mark G. Kuczewski andRonaldPolansky, eds., Bioethics: Ancient Themes in Contemporary Times (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000): 181-182.
2. Christine E. Gudorf, “A Feminist Critique of Biomedical Principlism,” in Edwin R. DuBose, Ron Hamel, and Laurence J. O’Connell, eds., A Matter of Principles? (Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1994).
3. Susan M. Wolf, “Introduction: Gender and Feminism in Bioethics,” in Wolf, ed., Feminism and Bioethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996): 17.
4. John Hardwig, “What About the Family?” Hastings Center Report 20 (1990): 6.
5. Thomas May, Bioethics in a Liberal Society: The Political Framework of Bioethics Decision Making (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).
6. Hardwig, “What About the Family?” 8.
7. RichardArneson, “Neutrality andUtility,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 20 (1990): 215-240.
8. John Rawls, “Justice as Fairness: Political, Not Metaphysical,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 14 (1985): 223-251.
9. May, Bioethics in a Liberal Society.
10. Wolf, “Introduction,” 17.
11. Kuczewski, “Can Communitarianism Endthe Shrill andInterminable Public Debates?” 13. See Thomas May, “The Concept of Autonomy,” American Philosophical Quarterly 31 (1994): 133-144.
12. E. B. Cole, “ ‘Autarkeia’ in Aristotle,” University of Dayton Review 19 (1988-1989): 35-42.
13. Joel Feinberg, Harm to Self (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
14. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971).
15. Robert Paul Wolff, In Defense of Anarchism (New York: Harper & Row, 1970).
16. my “The Concept of Autonomy.”
17. Cole, “‘Autarkeia’ in Aristotle,” 35-42.
18. Immanuel Kant, Groundingfor the Metaphysics of Morals, James W. Ellington, trans. (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1981): 44.
19. For a good discussion of how many modern notions of practical autonomy are at odds with such behavior, Gerald Dworkin, The Theory and Practice of Autonomy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988): 23-25.
20. Joseph Raz, The Morality of Freedom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
21. John Macken, The Autonomy Theme in the Church Dogmatics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
22. Thomas May, Autonomy, Authority and Moral Responsibility (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998).
23. H. L. A. Hart, The Concept of Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961).