Troubled Bodies
by Komesaroff, Paul A.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1996-08-01
Publisher(s): Duke Univ Pr
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Summary
""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
Table of Contents
| Introduction: postmodern medical ethics? | |
| Divide and multiply: culture and politics in the new medical order | |
| Abortion and embodiment | |
| From bioethics to microethics: ethical debate and clinical medicine | |
| Science, medicine, and illness: rediscovering the patient as a person | |
| The body politic | |
| Whose body? Feminist views on reproductive technologies | |
| Making babies, making sense: reproductive technologies, postmodernity, and the ambiguities of feminism | |
| Bodies and subjects: medical ethics and feminism | |
| The body biomedical ethics forgets | |
| Female bodies and food: a case of ethics and psychiatry | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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