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Critical interventions in the ethics of healthcare : Challenging the principle of autonomy in bioethics

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: London Asghate Publishers 2009Description: 241p xvISBN:
  • 9780754673965
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 344.041000 MUR
Contents:
Table of contents Contents: Introduction: towards a critical bioethics, Stuart J. Murray and Dave Holmes; Part I Clinical Interventions: My life? My choice? Ethics, autonomy, and evidence-based practice in contemporary clinical care, Kim Walker; 'You might not feel like yourself': on heart transplants, identity, and ethics, Jennifer M. Poole, Margrit Shildrick, Patricia McKeever, Susan Abbey and Heather Ross; Embracing the intersubjective: an ethics of care for chronic illness, Roanne Thomas-MacLean. Part II Biopolitical Interventions: Biotechnology and the governance of life: the case of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, Ann Robertson; 'Hail the cure!': Althusser, biotechnology, and biopolitics, Bradley Bryan; The perils of scientific obedience: bioethics under the spectre of biofascism, Stuart J. Murray; Contesting the autistic subject: biological citizenship and the autism/autistic movement, Michael Orsini. Part III Gendered Interventions: The view from inside: gendered embodiment and the medical representation of sex, Shelley Wall; The politics of medico-legal recognition: the terms of gendered subjectivity in the UK Gender Recognition Act, Sarah Burgess; Journeys of choice? Abortion, travel, and women's autonomy, Christabelle Sethna and Marion Doull. Part IV Cultural Intentions: The code of ethics in medicine: intertextuality and meaning in Plato's Sophist and Hippocrates' Oath, Twyla Gibson; Sleeping ethics: gene, episteme, and the body politic, Deborah Lynn Steinberg; The last temptation of Marion Woodman: the anorexic remainder in Bone: Dying Into Life, David L. Clark; Index.
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Table of contents
Contents:
Introduction: towards a critical bioethics, Stuart J. Murray and Dave Holmes;
Part I Clinical Interventions: My life? My choice?
Ethics, autonomy, and evidence-based practice in contemporary clinical care, Kim Walker;
'You might not feel like yourself':
on heart transplants, identity, and ethics, Jennifer M. Poole, Margrit Shildrick, Patricia McKeever, Susan Abbey and Heather Ross;
Embracing the intersubjective: an ethics of care for chronic illness, Roanne Thomas-MacLean.
Part II Biopolitical Interventions:
Biotechnology and the governance of life: the case of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, Ann Robertson; 'Hail the cure!': Althusser, biotechnology, and biopolitics, Bradley Bryan;
The perils of scientific obedience: bioethics under the spectre of biofascism, Stuart J. Murray;
Contesting the autistic subject: biological citizenship and the autism/autistic movement, Michael Orsini.
Part III Gendered Interventions: The view from inside: gendered embodiment and the medical representation of sex, Shelley Wall;
The politics of medico-legal recognition: the terms of gendered subjectivity in the UK Gender Recognition Act, Sarah Burgess;
Journeys of choice? Abortion, travel, and women's autonomy, Christabelle Sethna and Marion Doull.
Part IV Cultural Intentions:
The code of ethics in medicine: intertextuality and meaning in Plato's Sophist and Hippocrates' Oath, Twyla Gibson; Sleeping ethics: gene, episteme, and the body politic, Deborah Lynn Steinberg;
The last temptation of Marion Woodman: the anorexic remainder in Bone: Dying Into Life, David L. Clark;
Index.