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The perversion of autonomy : coercion and constraints in a liberal society / Willard Gaylin & Bruce Jennings.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaylin, Willard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Individualism--United States.
- Individualism.
- Involuntary treatment.
- United States.
- Libertarianism--United States.
- Libertarianism.
- Civil society--United States.
- Civil society.
- Social ethics--United States.
- Social ethics.
- Involuntary treatment--United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 293 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Revised and expanded.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- Freedom, coercion, and commonsense morality
- A self of one's own : the meaning of autonomy
- Land of the free : autonomy in American life today
- Seduced by autonomy : heeding the Grand Inquisitor and other critics
- It's only human nature
- Growing up good
- Irrational man
- The multiple meanings of coercion
- In defense of social control : the ethics of coercion
- Autonomy gone bonkers : the mentally impaired
- Last rights I : decisions to forgo life-sustaining treatment
- Last rights II : autonomy, moral trespass, and physician-assisted suicide
- Beyond autonomy : toward an ethic of interdependence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-280) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0878409068
- OCLC:
- 50519243
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