Thick (Concepts of) Autonomy

Preface (James F. Childress and Michael Quante).- Chapter 1. What Moral Responsibility is Not (John Martin Fischer).- Chapter 2. The Passivity of Self-Satisfaction: A Critical Re-Appraisal of Harry Frankfurt's Normatively Thin Ontology of Autonomy (Joel Anderson).- Chapter 3. Determining Oneself and Determining One's Self (Thomas Schramme).- Chapter 4. Self-Confidence, Self-Assertiveness, and Self-Esteem: The Triple S Condition of Personal Autonomy (Johann S. Ach and Arnd Pollmann).- Chapter 5. Autonomy, Respect, and Joint Deliberation (John Christman).- Chapter 6. Autonomy and Beliefs (Alfred R. Mele).- Chapter 7. How Much Understanding is Needed for Autonomy? (James Stacey Taylor).- Chapter 8. Is "Autonomy Talk" Misleading? (Thomas Gutmann).- Chapter 9. Respecting Personal Autonomy in Bioethics: Relational Autonomy as a Corrective? (James F. Childress).- Chapter 10. Patients' Decision-Making Competence: Discontents with a Risk-Relative Conception (Bettina Schöne-Seifert).- Chapter11. Vulnerability, Exploitation, and Autonomy (Catriona Mackenzie).- Chapter 12. Outlook (James F. Childress and Michael Quante).- Index.

James F. Childress is Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, USA. Prior to his retirement in 2016, among his various titles, he was University Professor, the John Allen Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics, Professor of Religious Studies, and founding Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life at the University of Virginia. His academic interests focus on bioethics, public health ethics, ethics and public policy, and method and theory in ethics and bioethics. Childress is the author of numerous articles and book chapters-well over 150-as well as several books in biomedical ethics and in other areas of ethics. His books in biomedical ethics include Principles of Biomedical Ethics (with Tom L. Beauchamp) (Oxford University Press, 1979-2019), now in its 8th edition and translated into several languages; Priorities in Biomedical Ethics (The Westminster Press, 1981); Who Should Decide? Paternalism in Health Care (Oxford University Press, 1982); Practical Reasoning in Bioethics (Indiana University Press, 1997); and Public Bioethics: Principles and Problems (Oxford University Press, 2020). He is the co-author with three others of Essentials of Public Health Ethics (Jones and Bartlett, 2014). His other books in ethics include Moral Responsibility in Conflicts (Louisiana State University Press, 1982) and Civil Disobedience and Political Obligation (Yale University Press, 1971). He is also co-editor of seven books, including Belmont Revisited: Ethical Principles for Biomedical Research (with Eric Meslin and Harold Shapiro) (Georgetown University Press, 2005); Organ Donation: Opportunities for Action(with Catharyn Liverman) (National Academies Press, 2006); Opportunities for Organ Donor Intervention Research: Saving Lives by Improving the Quality and Quantity of Organs for Transplantation (with Sarah Domnitz and Catharyn T. Liverman) (National Academies Press, 2017); and Methods in Bioethics: The Way We Reason Now