Rethinking Autonomy: A Critique of Principlism in Biomedical Ethics - Softcover

Traphagan, John W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438445520 ISBN 13: 9781438445526

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2013

Synopsis

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

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438445520
• ISBN 13: 9781438445526
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176