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Thomas Schramme Editor

New Perspectives on Paternalism and Health Care

Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy Volume 35

Editor in Chief Marcus Düwell, Utrecht University, Utrecht, NL Editorial Board Deryck Beyleveld, Durham University, Durham, U.K. David Copp, University of Florida, USA Nancy Fraser, New School for Social Research, New York, USA Martin van Hees, Groningen University, Netherlands Thomas Hill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Samuel Kerstein, University of Maryland, College Park, USA Will Kymlicka, Queens University, Ontario, Canada Philippe Van Parijs, Louvaine-la-Neuve (Belgium) and Harvard, USA Qui Renzong, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Peter Schaber, Ethikzentrum, University of Zürich, Switzerland Thomas Schmidt, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

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Thomas Schramme Editor

New Perspectives on Paternalism and Health Care

Editor Thomas Schramme Department of Philosophy Hamburg University Hamburg, Germany

ISSN 1387-6678 ISSN 2215-0323 (electronic) Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy ISBN 978-3-319-17959-9 ISBN 978-3-319-17960-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-17960-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015940884 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www. springer.com)

Acknowledgements

The essays in this volume were discussed at the Spring School ‘New Perspectives on Medical Paternalism’ at the University of Hamburg in March 2012. This was a fantastic opportunity for young academics, most of them with a background in philosophy, to discuss issues in paternalism in a very intense – as some have put it, camp-like – atmosphere. In addition to these participants, who were selected by peer reviewers on the basis of ap