Introduction
Christine Straehle
Part I: Vulnerability, Individual Agency and Social Justice
Chapter 1: Vulnerability and the Incompleteness of Practical Reason
Carla Bagnoli
Chapter 2: Vulnerability, Autonomy and Sense of Self
Christine Straehle
Chapter 3: Precarious Autonomy, Hazardous Circumstances, and the Injustice of Imposed Infeasibility
Joel Anderson
Chapter 4: Ordinary Vulnerability, Institutional Androgyny and Gender Justice
Naïma Hamrouni
Chapter 5: Vulnerability, Needs and Moral Obligation
Catriona Mackenzie
Chapter 6: Vulnerability, Health Care and Need
Vida Panitch and Chad Horne
Part II: Vulnerability in Applied Ethics
Chapter 7: The Most Vulnerable Patients in Health Care
Samia Hurst
Chapter 8: Vulnerability in Genetic Counseling and the Ground of Nondirectiveness
Michael Deem
Chapter 9: On the Relationship between Vulnerability and Trust
Claudia Wiesemann
Chapter 10: Doctrinal Vulnerability and the Authority of Children’s Voices
Colin Macleod
Chapter 11: Children’s Vulnerability in Clinical Trials
Bobbie Farsides
Biography
Christine Straehle is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, Canada
"This volume is the best book on vulnerability since Robert Goodin’s now 30-year-old volume. Its applications of the concept of vulnerability in the areas of research on children, the care of the elderly and prospective parents are very useful and innovatively conceived." – Rosemarie Tong, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
