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Title Troubled bodies : critical perspectives on postmodernism, medical ethics, and the body / edited by Paul A. Komesaroff
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 1995

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Description 241 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction: postmodern medical ethics? / Paul A. Komesaroff -- Divide and multiply: culture and politics in the new medical order / Doug White --Abortion and embodiment / Catriona Mackenzie -- From bioethics to microethics: ethical debate and clinical medicine / Paul A. Komesaroff -- Science, medicine, and illness: rediscovering the patient as a person /Paul Redding -- The body politic / Peter Murphy --Whose body? Feminist views on reproductive technologies / Max Charlesworth -- Making babies, making sense: reproductive technologies, postmodernity, and the ambiguities of feminism /Alison Caddick -- Bodies and subjects: medical ethics and feminism / Philipa Rothfield -- The body biomedical ethics forgets / Rosalyn Diprose -- Female bodies and food: a case of ethics and psychiatry /Denise Russell
Notes CIP confirmed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Feminist theory.
Medical ethics.
Postmodernism.
Bioethics.
Ethics, Medical.
Women's Health.
Ethics, Medical.
Feminism.
Author Komesaroff, Paul A.
LC no. 95016274
ISBN 0822316765 (alk. paper)
0822316889 (paperback: alk. paper)