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Tables of Contents for The Perversion of Autonomy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
Freedom, Coercion, and Commonsense Morality
1
26
PART I The Culture of Autonomy
A Self of One's Own: The Meaning of Autonomy
27
20
Land of the Free: Autonomy in American Life Today
47
20
Seduced by Autonomy: Heeding the Grand Inquisitor and Other Critics
67
18
PART II The Biological Limits of Autonomy
It's Only Human Nature
85
14
Growing Up Good
99
20
Irrational Man
119
24
PART III The Ethical Limits of Autonomy and the Uses of Coercion
The Multiple Meanings of Coercion
143
22
In Defense of Social Control: The Ethics of Coercion
165
24
Autonomy Gone Bonkers: The Mentally Impaired
189
24
Last Rights I: Decisions to Forgo Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment
213
16
Last Rights II: Autonomy, Moral Trespass, and Physician-Assisted Suicide
229
22
Beyond Autonomy: Toward an Ethic of Interdependence
251
18
Notes
269
12
Index
281