Rethinking Autonomy: A Critique of Principlism in Biomedical Ethics

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix 1. Inventing Ethics 1 1.1 The Problem of Common Morality 1 1.2 Embodied Culture 9 1.3 Thinking About Culture 12 1.4 What Is Culture? 13 1.5 Memory, Culture, Ethics 23 2. Self, Autonomy, and Body 27 2.1 Principles and Ethics 27 2.2 Autonomy 32 2.3 What Is a Human? 36 2.4 Culture, Mind, and Body 41 2.5 Categories of Person and Self 51 2.6 The Nature of Humans 58 2.7 Mind and Body, Inside and Outside 59 3. Autonomy and Japanese Self-Concepts 63 3.1 Self and Other 63 3.2 The Individual Self 70 3.3 Self and Childhood Development 72 3.4 The Processive Self 74 3.5 Moral Selves and Autonomy 75 4. Autonomies, Virtue, and Social Change 79 4.1 Self, Virtue, and Character 79 4.2 Family, Self, Society 83 4.3 Autonomy, Family, and Social Change 88 viii Contents 5. Mental Health, Suicide, and Self-Centered Behavior 95 5.1 Self and Other 95 5.2 Suicide as Medical and Analytical Category 98 5.3 Suicide and Self-Killing in Japan 102 5.4 Death 111 6. Emotion, Aesthetics, and Moral Action 119 6.1 Situational Ethics in Japan 119 6.2 The Obasuteyama Legend 121 6.3 Harmony and Sincerity 129 6.4 Japanese Ethics 131 7. Rethinking Autonomy 135 References 147 Index 159 ...