The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent
About this ebook
• General questions
• Normative ethics
• Legal theory
• Medical ethics
• Political philosophy.
Within these sections central issues, debates and problems are examined, including: the nature and normative importance of consent, paternalism, exploitation and coercion, privacy, sexual consent, consent and criminal law, informed consent, organ donation, clinical research, and consent theory of political obligation and authority.
The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent is essential reading for students and researchers in moral theory, applied ethics, medical ethics, philosophy of law and political philosophy. This volume will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as political science, law, medicine and social science.
About the author
Andreas Müller is Assistant Professor for Ethics at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Before that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Advanced Study in Bioethics at the University of Münster, Germany. He is currently preparing a monograph on the normative relevance of consent.
Peter Schaber is Professor for Applied Ethics at the Centre for Ethics, University of Zurich, Switzerland. He was previously lecturer at the University of Göttingen and Hannover, Germany. He is an editor of Moral Philosophy and Politics and a member of the executive board of the Society for Applied Philosophy.
