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68New Perspectives on Paternalism and Health Care (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2015.Decision-making capacity or mental competence is one of the most intensively discussed concepts in contemporary bioethics and medical ethics. In this paper I argue that anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder primarily afflicting adolescent girls and young women, seriously challenges what I label the traditional account of decision-making capacity. In light of these results, it may in addition be necessary to rethink a certain popular type of paternalistic argumentation that grounds the justificati…Read more
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21Forms of Fellow Feeling: Empathy, Sympathy, Concern and Moral Agency (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2017.What is the basis of our capacity to act morally? This is a question that has been discussed for millennia, with philosophical debate typically distinguishing two sources of morality: reason and sentiment. This collection aims to shed light on whether the human capacity to feel for others really is central for morality and, if so, in what way. To tackle these questions, the authors discuss how fellow feeling is to be understood: its structure, content and empirical conditions. Also discussed are…Read more
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13Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine (edited book)Springer. 2017.This is the first wide-ranging, multi-authored handbook in the field of philosophy of medicine, covering the underlying conceptual issues of many important social, political and ethical issues in health care. It introduces and develops over 70 topics, concepts, and issues in the field. It is written by distinguished specialists from multiple disciplines, including philosophy, health sciences, nursing, sociology, political theory, and medicine. Many difficult social and ethical issues in health c…Read more
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20Expanding the Normative Framework of Public Health Ethics: Some Results from an Interdisciplinary Research GroupPublic Health Ethics 8 (1): 4-6. 2015.
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91Who cares what the people think? Revisiting David Miller’s approach to theorising about justiceContemporary Political Theory 17 (1): 69-104. 2018.
Liverpool, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Interest
Paternalism |
Empathy and Sympathy |
Altruism |
Philosophy of Psychiatry and Psychopathology |