Holloway Private Bodies, Public Texts

Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9371-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

An argument for a cultural bioethics that recognizes and attempts to address the greater vulnerability to exploitation experienced by groups including African Americans and women in medical and legal contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holloway, Karla FC

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface xv

Acknowledgements xxi

Introduction. The Law of the Body 1

1. Bloodchild 25

2. Cartographies of Desire 67

3. Who's Got the Body? 101

4. Immortality in Cultures 137

Notes 173

Bibliography 199

Index 211

Über Autor(innen)

Karla FC Holloway is James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University, where she also holds appointments in the Law School, Women’s Studies, and African & African American Studies, and is an affiliated faculty with the Institute on Care at the End of Life and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine. She serves on the Greenwall Foundation’s Advisory Board in Bioethics, was recently elected to the Hastings Center Fellows Association, and is the author of many books, including BookMarks: Reading in Black and White; Passed On: African American Mourning Stories: A Memorial, also published by Duke University Press; and Codes of Conduct: Race, Ethics, and the Color of Our Character.