Naturalized Bioethics

Part I. Responsible Knowing: 1. Moral bodies: epistemologies of embodiment Jackie Leach Scully; 2. Choosing surgical birth: desire and the nature of bioethical advice Raymond DeVries, Lisa Kane Low, and Elizabeth Bogdan-Lovis; 3. Holding on to Edmund: the relational work of identity Hilde Lindemann; 4. Caring, minimal autonomy, and the limits of liberalism Agnieszka Jaworska; 5. Narrative, complexity, and context: autonomy as an epistemic value Naomi Scheman; 6. Toward a naturalized narrative bioethics Tod Chambers; Part II. Responsible Practice: 7. Motivating health: empathy and the normative activity of coping Jodi Halpern and Margaret Olivia Little; 8. Economies of hope in a period of transition: parents in the time leading up to their child's liver transplantation Marre Knibbe and Marian Verkerk; 9. Consent as a grant of autonomy: a care ethics reader of informed consent Joan Tronto; 10. Professional loving care and the bearable heaviness of being Annelies van Heijst; 11. Ideal theory bioethics and the exclusion of people with severe cognitive disabilities Eva Feder Kittay; 12. Epilogue: naturalized bioethics in practice Marian Verkerk and Hilde Lindemann.