Naturalized bioethics: toward responsible knowing and practice

Abstract

Part I. Responsible Knowing: 1. Moral bodies: epistemologies of embodiment Jackie Leach Scully 2. Choosing surgical birth: desire and the nature of bioethical advice Raymond DeVries, Lisa Kane Low, and Elizabeth Bogdan-Lovis 3. Holding on to Edmund: the relational work of identity Hilde Lindemann 4. Caring, minimal autonomy, and the limits of liberalism Agnieszka Jaworska 5. Narrative, complexity, and context: autonomy as an epistemic value Naomi Scheman 6. Toward a naturalized narrative bioethics Tod Chambers Part II. Responsible Practice: 7. Motivating health: empathy and the normative activity of coping Jodi Halpern and Margaret Olivia Little 8. Economies of hope in a period of transition: parents in the time leading up to their child's liver transplantation Marre Knibbe and Marian Verkerk 9. Consent as a grant of autonomy: a care ethics reader of informed consent Joan Tronto 10. Professional loving care and the bearable heaviness of being Annelies van Heijst 11. Ideal theory bioethics and the exclusion of people with severe cognitive disabilities Eva Feder Kittay 12. Epilogue: naturalized bioethics in practice Marian Verkerk and Hilde Lindemann.