Ethics of the body : postconventional challenges / edited by Margrit Shildrick and Roxanne Mykitiuk.

The provocative contention of the postmodernist and feminist essays in Ethics of the Body is that conventional bioethics is out of touch, despite its growing profile. It is out of touch with an ongoing phenomenological sense of bodies themselves; with the impact of postmodernist theory as it problem...

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Other Authors: Shildrick, Margrit, Mykitiuk, Roxanne, 1962-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
Series:Basic bioethics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Beyond the body of bioethics : challenging the conventions / Margrit Shildrick
  • Attending to difference : phenomenology and bioethics / Philipa Rothfield
  • Admitting all variations? Postmodernism and genetic normality / Jackie Leach Scully
  • The measure of HIV as a matter of bioethics / Marsha Rosengarten
  • Addiction and the bioethics of difference / Helen Keane
  • Liberatory psychiatry and an ethics of the in-between / Nancy Potter
  • A bioethics of failure : antiheroic cancer narratives / Lisa Diedrich
  • Biomedicine and moral agency in a complex world / Sylvia Nagl
  • Reproductive technology and the political limits of care / Carol Bacchi and Chris Beasley
  • Genetics and the legal conception of self / Isabel Karpin
  • The devouring : genetics, abjection, and the limits of law / Karen O'Connell
  • A genethics that makes sense : take two / Rosalyn Diprose
  • Queer kids : toward ethical clinical interactions with intersex people / Katrina Roen.