The Variables of Moral Capacity (Hardcover, 2004)

Contributors. Preface. Part One: Challenges of Moral Capacity. 1: Choices, Autonomy, and Moral Capacity; D.C. Thomasma. 2: Self-Conceptions, Agency, and the Value of Individual Persons; J. Blustein. 3: Kohlberg and the Structural-Developmental Approach to Moral Psychology; L. Walker. 4: Morality and Selfhood: Contributions from Moral Psychology; K. Hennig. 5: Developing Moral Capacity from Childhood to Young Adulthood; A.A. Pontius. 6: A Dream of Dirty Hands: Moral Conflict and Personal Conscience; K. Arnet Connidis. 7: Capacity Is Not In Your Head: Why It Can Be a Mistake to Request a Psychiatric Consultation to Determine Capacity; J. Spike. 8: How Not to Philosophize With a Hammer: Reply to Spike; K. Montgomery. 9: How Not to Philosophize With a Hammer: Reply to Montgomery; J. Spike. Part Two: Professional Morality and Criteria for Health Care Decisions. 10: Moral Capacity: The Tension Between Professional Nurture and Universal Nature; D.N. Weisstub, D.C. Thomasma. 11: Some Ethical Principles for Adult Critical Care; K. Kipnis, A. Gerhard. 12: The Influence of Pressure on Nurses' Moral Capacity; B. Kopala. 13: Surrogate Decision Making: A Case for Boundaries; R. Rhodes, I. Holzman. 14: Knowing Well or Living Well: Is Competence Relevant to Moral Experience and Capacity in Clinical Decision-Making; E. van Leeuwen, A. Vellinga. 15: Vulnerable Persons: Measuring Moral Capacity; M. Silberfeld. 16: Vulnerability in Research Subjects: An Analytical Approach; K. Kipnis. Part Three: Reflections on Moral Incapacity. 17: The Bad Brain: Biology of Moral Thinking; L.R. Tancredi. 18: Moral and Ethical Capacities of the Psychopath: An Integrated View; W.H.J. Martens. 19: The Moral Competence of Serial Killers: A Preliminary Exploration; G.B. Palermo. 20: Moral Capacities of Psychotic and Addicted Individuals; R. Weinstock. 21: Morality As Impulse and Ethics As 'Thinking' About Morality: A Psychoanalytic Perspective; C. Ury. Index.