PPR456: Paternalism, Autonomy and Consent

Objectives

1. Liberty and autonomy – why are they important?
2. Personal  autonomy: how and when are we autonomous?
3. Autonomy undermined 1: addiction
4. Autonomy undermined 2: oppressive socialization
5. Autonomy undermined 3: advertising
6. Paternalism: overriding autonomy for the agent's own good
7. Medical paternalism and medical deception
8. Informed consent
9. Nudge? Libertarian paternalism
10. Draft essay discussion class

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Berlin, Isaiah, 'Two Concepts of Liberty' in,  Four Essays on Liberty (1969).

Buchanan, Allen, 1978, 'Medical Paternalism', Philosophy and Public Affairs, 7, 370-390.

Christman, John:  "Constructing the Inner Citadel: Recent Work on the Concept of Autonomy," Ethics 99:1 (Oct. 1988): 109.

Crisp, Roger.: 1987, ''Persuasive Advertising, Autonomy, and the Creation of Desire'', Journal of Business Ethics 6, 413-418.

Dworkin, Gerald, 2005 'Paternalism'

Husak, Douglas N. 'Legal paternalism' in Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethics, 387-412

Frankfurt, Harry, "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person," Journal of Philosophy 68:1 (Jan. 1971).

Levy, Neil,  'Autonomy and addiction' Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 36(3), 2006, 427-448

Manson, Neil,  'Consent and Informed Consent' in Richard Ashcroft, Angus Dawson, Heather Draper and John McMillan (eds.), Principles of Health Care Ethics (2nd ed), London , John Wiley 2007)

Meyers, Diana T., "Personal Autonomy and the Paradox of Feminine Socialization," Journal of Philosophy 84 (Nov. 1987): 619

Mill, John Stuart, On Liberty

Sunstein, Cass, and Richard H. Thaler, 'Libertarian Paternalism is not an Oxymoron'  University of Chicago Law Review 70 (4) 2006, 1159-202

Robert Young 'The value of autonomy' The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 126 (Jan., 1982).Manson, Neil C. & O'Neill, Onora, 2007, Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Mill John Stuart, 1989, On Liberty, and other Writings, ed. Stefan Collini, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

O'Neill, Onora, 2002, Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics,Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schneider, Carl E., 1998, The Practice of Autonomy, New York: Oxford University Press.

Sugarman, Jeremy et al., 1999, 'Empirical Research on Informed Consent: An Annotated Bibliography', Hastings Center Report, Special Supplement, January-February, 1-42.

Wolpe, P., 1998, 'The Triumph of Autonomy in American Bioethics', in Devries, R. and Subedi, J., eds., Bioethics and Society: Constructing the Ethical Enterprise, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 38-59.

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