Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics

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. The Ethics of Vulnerability brings together theorists working on conceptualizing vulnerability as an action-guiding principle in these d

"This volume is the best book on vulnerability since Robert Goodin's now 30-year-old volume. Its applications of the concept of vulnerability in the areas of research on children, the care of the elderly and prospective parents are very useful and innovatively conceived." Rosemarie Tong, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

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Christine Straehle is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, Canada

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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

Catriona 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