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Author:   John W. Traphagan
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.254kg
ISBN:  

9781438445526

ISBN 10:   1438445520
Pages:   173
Publication Date:   01 January 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Inventing Ethics 1.1 The Problem of Common Morality 1.2 Embodied Culture 1.3 Thinking About Culture 1.4 What Is Culture? 1.5 Memory, Culture, Ethics 2. Self, Autonomy, and Body 2.1 Principles and Ethics 2.2 Autonomy 2.3 What Is a Human? 2.4 Culture, Mind, and Body 2.5 Categories of a Person and Self 2.6 The Nature of Humans 2.7 Mind and Body, Inside and Outside 3. Autonomy and Japanese Self-Concepts 3.1 Self and Other 3.2 The Individual Self 3.3 Self and Childhood Development 3.4 The Processive Self 3.5 Moral Selves and Autonomy 4. Autonomies, Virtue, and Social Change 4.1 Self, Virtue, and Character 4.2 Family, Self, Society 4.3 Autonomy, Family, and Social Change 5. Mental Health, Suicide, and Self-Centered Behavior 5.1 Self and Other 5.2 Suicide as Medical and Analytical Category 5.3 Suicide and Self-Killing in Japan 5.4 Death 6. Emotion, Aesthetics, and Moral Action 6.1 Situational Ethics in Japan 6.2 The Obasuteyama Legend 6.3 Harmony and Sincerity 6.4 Japanese Ethics 7. Rethinking Autonomy References Index

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Rethinking Autonomy is the first comprehensive comparison of a non-Western moral system in the context of Western philosophy, religious studies, and ethics. This is a seminal work a masterpiece that will be of great importance for biomedical ethicists. Barbara Oakley, coeditor of Pathological Altruism<br><br> In our increasingly multicultural societies, a volume such as this is essential. With life, death, and legal issues at stake, it is an important contribution that those in the health, legal, and social services professions will find valuable as they navigate the complex terrain of making decisions and counseling other people in making decisions, often in emotionally charged, if not traumatic, contexts. Paula Arai, author of Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women s Rituals

"""...[a] fascinating book ... an illuminating tale of the cultural origins of American bioethical principles and the conclusion that the American bioethical project is incomplete."" - Care Management Journals ""Rethinking Autonomy is the first comprehensive comparison of a non-Western moral system in the context of Western philosophy, religious studies, and ethics. This is a seminal work-a masterpiece-that will be of great importance for biomedical ethicists."" - Barbara Oakley, coeditor of Pathological Altruism ""In our increasingly multicultural societies, a volume such as this is essential. With life, death, and legal issues at stake, it is an important contribution that those in the health, legal, and social services professions will find valuable as they navigate the complex terrain of making decisions and counseling other people in making decisions, often in emotionally charged, if not traumatic, contexts."" - Paula Arai, author of Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women's Rituals"

Author Information

John W. Traphagan is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and also Secretary General of the Japan Anthropology Workshop. He is the author of Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan and the coeditor of Imagined Families, Lived Families: Culture and Kinship in Contemporary Japan (with Akiko Hashimoto); Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan: Concepts of Tradition and Modernity in Practice (with Christopher S. Thompson); and Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society (with John Knight), all published by SUNY Press.

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