Troubled Bodies

Critical Perspectives on Postmodernism, Medical Ethics, and the Body
Herausgeber: Komesaroff, Paul A

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

""Troubled Bodies" draws on philosophical developments that question the reigning paradigms in ethics and, accordingly, will open new avenues as it reimagines the very nature of medical ethics."--Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 151mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780822316886
• ISBN-10: 0822316889
• Artikelnr.: 22064784

Autorenporträt

Paul A. Komesaroff

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: postmodern medical ethics? / Paul A. Komesaroff 1
Divide and multiply: culture and politics in the new medical order / Doug
White 20
Abortion and embodiment / Catriona Mackenzie 38
From bioethics to microethics: ethical debate and clinical medicine / Paul
A. Komesaroff 62
Science, medicine, and illness: rediscovering the patient as a person /
Paul Redding 87
The body politic / Peter Murphy 103
Whose body? Feminist views on reproductive technologies / max Charlesworth
125
Making babies, making sense: reproductive technologies, postmodernity, and
the ambiguities of feminism / Alison Caddick 142
Bodies and subjects: medical ethics and feminism / Philipa Rothfield 168
The body biomedical ethics forgets / Rosalyn Diprose 202
Female bodies and food: a case of ethics and psychiatry / Denise Russell
222
Glossary 235
index 237