| Description |
xvi, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Bodies and Politics / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- 1. Bodies Perfect, Bodies Everlasting, Bodies Bought and Sold. 1. Terra es animata: On Having a Life / Gilbert Meilaender. 2. The New Eugenics and Feminist Quandaries / Jean Bethke Elshtain. 3. The Dream of the Human Genome / Richard C. Lewontin. 4. The Matter of Baby M / Robert N. Wilentz. 5. "Surrogate Mothering" and Women's Freedom: A Critique of Contracts for Human Reproduction / Mary Lyndon Shanley -- 2. Suffering and Pain: The Body Beleaguered and Besieged. 6. Pain, Suffering, and Death in the ICU / Arthur P. Wheeler. 7. Suffering in Chronic Illness /Eric J. Cassell. 8. A Reflection on Pain and Embodiment / Richard M. Zaner -- 3. Organs for Sale or Rent: Progress or Pathology. 9. Organs for Sale? Propriety, Property, and the Price of Progress / Leon R. Kass. 10. The Case for Commerce in Organ Transplantation / James F. Blumstein |
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4. Misguided Compassion, Disciplined Subjects, Torture as Politics, and Slavery as Social Death. 11. Killing Compassion / Stanley Hauerwas. 12. Selling Student Bodies / David M. Steiner. 13. Democratic Space: A Study of Political Excess in Foucault's Thought / Charles E. Scott. 14. Torture, Human Rights, and the Body / J. Timothy Cloyd. 15. The Slave Body: Authority, Alienation, and Social Death / Orlando Patterson |
| Analysis |
Humans Body Philosophy |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 293-315 |
| Subject |
Bioethics.
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Human body -- Political aspects.
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Human body (Philosophy)
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Self (Philosophy)
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| Author |
Cloyd, J. Timothy, 1961-
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Elshtain, Jean Bethke, 1941-2013.
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| LC no. |
94048390 |
| ISBN |
0826512593 (alk. paper) |
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0826512607 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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