Raymond De Vries / Kristina Orfali / Charles Bosk

The View from Here

Bioethics and the Social Sciences
Herausgeber: De Vries, Raymond; Bosk, Charles; Orfali, Kristina; Turner, Leigh

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Produktbeschreibung

Although the field of bioethics is about 40 years old, sociologists are only now beginning to explore the ramifications of its appearance and growth. The View from Here presents the best of recent work in bioethics, exploring: the profession of bioethics and its role in discussions about the means and ends of the life sciences; how ordinary questions become 'bioethical' questions and why some bioethical issues fail to attract the attention of bioethicists; variations in the manifestations of bioethics in different countries and health systems; the relationship between social science and bioethics and the effect of the rise of bioethics on the field of medical sociology. The rich understanding of bioethics offered by this volume makes it an essential text for medical sociologists, medical anthropologists, bioethicists, and to the increasingly large audience of those interested in the relationship between the social sciences and bioethics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 343g
• ISBN-13: 9781405152693
• ISBN-10: 1405152699
• Artikelnr.: 22110607

Autorenporträt

Raymond De Vries is a member of the Bioethics Program at the University of Michigan. Leigh Turner is an Associate Professor in the Biomedical Ethics Unit and Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University. Kristina Orfali is an Associate Clinical Professor of Bioethics in Pediatrics, a Research Scholar at Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy and a Faculty Associate in the Center for Bioethics at Columbia University. Charles Bosk is Professor of Sociology and Medical Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Social Science and Bioethics: The Way Forward: Raymond de Vries,Leigh Turner, Kristina Orfali and Charles Bosk.

2. Co-ordinating 'Ethical' Clinical Trials: The Roleof Research Coordinators in the Contract Research Industry: Jill A.Fisher.

3. The Many Meanings of Care in Clinical Research: Michele M.Easter, Gail E. Henderson, Arlene M. Davis, Larry R. Churchill andNancy M. P. King.

4. The Field Worker's Fields: Ethics, Ethnography andMedical Sociology: Renée R. Anspach and Nissim Mizrachi.

5. Ethical Boundary-Work in the Embryonic Stem Cell Laboratory:Steven P. Wainwright, Clare Williams, Mike Michael, Bobbie Farsidesand Alan Cribb.

6. Gift Not Commodity? Lay People Deliberating Social SexSelection: Jackie Leach Scully, Tom Shakespeare and SarahBanks.

7. It's Money That Matters: The Financial Context ofEthical Decision-Making in Modern Biomedicine: Adam M.Hedgecoe.

8. The Power of Ethics: A Case Study from Sweden on the SocialLife of Moral Concerns in Policy Processes: Klaus Hoeyer.

9. Explaining the Emergence of Euthanasia Law in theNetherlands: How the Sociology of Law Can Help the Sociology ofBioethics: Heleen Weyers.

10. From Biopolitics to Bioethics: Church, State, Medicine andAssisted Reproductive Technology in Ireland: Orla McDonnell andJill Allison.

11. Taking Sociology Seriously: A New Approach to the BioethicalProblems of Infectious Disease: Mark Tausig, Michael J. Selgelid,Sree Subedi and Janardan Subedi.

12. Biobanks, Bioethics and Concepts of Donated Blood in the UK:Helen Busby.

13. Embodiment and Ethics: Constructing Medicine's TwoBodies: David Armstrong.

Rezensionen

?The diversity of papers in the collection reflect the multiplicityof ways through which social scientists can engage with (bio)ethicsand provide a valuable resource for those new to the area.?(Medical Sociology , April 2009)