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The Variables of Moral Capacity

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  • © 2004

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Editors:
  1. David C. Thomasma

    1. Loyola University Chicago Medical Center, Maywood, USA

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  2. David N. Weisstub

    1. University of Montreal School of Medicine, Montreal, Canada

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  • Takes a multidisciplinary approach to the subject, and ties the disciplines of medicine, philosophy and law into the health context

Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (LIME, volume 21)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-5
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  2. Challenges of Moral Capacity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Choices, Autonomy, and Moral Capacity

      • David C. Thomasma
      Pages 9-22

    3. Self-Conceptions, Agency, and the Value of Individual Persons

      • Jeffrey Blustein
      Pages 23-41

    4. Kohlberg and the Structural-Developmental Approach to Moral Psychology

      • Lawrence Walker
      Pages 43-56

    5. Morality and Selfhood

      • Karl Hennig
      Pages 57-77

    6. Developing Moral Capacity from Childhood to Young Adulthood

      • Anneliese A. Pontius
      Pages 79-94

    7. A Dream of Dirty Hands

      • Kristine Arnet Connidis
      Pages 95-111

    8. Capacity is Not in Your Head

      • Jeffrey Spike
      Pages 113-119

    9. How Not to Philosiphize with a Hammer

      • Kathryn Montgomery
      Pages 121-127

    10. How Not to Philosophize with a Hammer

      • Jeffrey Spike
      Pages 129-135

  3. Professional Morality and Criteria for Health Care Decisions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. Moral Capacity

      • David N. Weisstub, David C. Thomasma
      Pages 139-149

    3. Some Ethical Principles for Adult Critical Care

      • Kenneth Kipnis, Anita Gerhard
      Pages 151-157

    4. The Influence of Pressure on Nurses’ Moral Capacity

      • Beverly Kopala
      Pages 159-171

    5. Surrogate Decision Making

      • Rosamond Rhodes, Ian Holzman
      Pages 173-185

    6. Knowing Well or Living Well

      • Evert van Leeuwen, Astrid Vellinga
      Pages 187-202

    7. Vulnerable Persons

      • Michel Silberfeld
      Pages 203-215

    8. Vulnerability in Research Subjects

      • Kenneth Kipnis
      Pages 217-231

  4. Reflections on Moral Incapacity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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About this book

Moral capacity is an important feature of what it means to be human. In this volume, the contributors have taken on the daunting task of trying to distinguish between legal and moral capacity. This distinction is difficult at times for clinicians, philosophers and legal scholars alike. Part of the challenge of defining moral capacity lies in the difficulty of adequately categorizing it. For this reason, the editors have chosen to divide the book into three parts. The first looks at the concepts involved in the discussion of moral capacity; the second considers the role of moral capacity in the lives of professionals; and the final part reflects on case studies of moral capacity or incapacity illustrating the challenge that moral capacity presents - its definition lying between two seemingly incommensurable models, those of the threshold and continuum.
This volume takes a multidisciplinary approach to the subject, and ties the disciplines of medicine, philosophy and law into the health context. It will be of interest to medical health professionals as well as researchers working in the areas of philosophy and law.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Loyola University Chicago Medical Center, Maywood, USA

    David C. Thomasma

  • University of Montreal School of Medicine, Montreal, Canada

    David N. Weisstub

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Variables of Moral Capacity

  • Editors: David C. Thomasma, David N. Weisstub

  • Series Title: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2552-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2551-8Published: 20 September 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6677-0Published: 08 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2552-5Published: 07 November 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1567-8008

  • Series E-ISSN: 2351-955X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 334

  • Topics: Ethics, Law, general, Philosophy, general

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