Troubled bodies : critical perspectives on postmodernism, medical ethics, and the body / edited by Paul A. Komesaroff.

Date:
1995
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Publication/Creation

Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.

Physical 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 technology / 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • 0822316765
  • 0822316889