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 -- Glossary |
Analysis |
Bioethics |
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Feminism |
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Medical ethics |
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Overseas item |
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Patients' rights |
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Postmodernism |
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Reproduction |
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Women |
Notes |
CIP confirmed |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Feminist theory.
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Human body (Philosophy)
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Medical ethics.
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Postmodernism.
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Author |
Komesaroff, Paul A.
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LC no. |
95016274 |
ISBN |
052284684X (paperback) |
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