Bioethical Issues, Sociologial Perspectives

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-7623-1438-6
Verlag: Emerald Group Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Advances in Medical Sociology

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Rothman, Barbara Katz

Armstrong, Elizabeth M

Tiger, Rebecca

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Bioethik, Tierethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Bioethik, Tierethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

working version, February 2007

Introductory Preface: Co-authored by the editors.

Part I: Placing Bioethics Historically
Introduction by the editors

1. Whose Body (of Opinion) is it Anyway? Historicizing Tissue Ownership and Examining Public Opinion in Bioethics

2. Bioethics in the media: Shifting definitions of expertise from Cruzan to Schiavo

3. The Changing Context of Neonatal Decision Making: Are the Consumerist and Disability Rights Movements Having an Effect?

4. The Importation of American Bioethics to Japan

Part II: The Sociology of a Working Bioethics: Private Narratives
Introduction by the editors

5. Ethical Mindfulness: Narratives and Everyday Ethics in Health Care

6. What Are We Really Doing Here? Journeys into Hospital Ethics Committees in Germany: Nurses Participation and the(ir) Marginalization of Care

7. Healthcare Ethics Committees Without Function? Locations and Forms of Ethical Speech in a Society of Presents

8. Making the Autonomous Client: How Genetic Counselors Construct Autonomous Subjects

Part III: Bioethics in the Policy Arena: Public Narratives
Introduction by the Editors

9. Cutting Risk: Male Circumcision, HIV Prevention and the Ethics of Promoting Wellness

10. But you cannot influence the direction of your thinking: Guiding Self-Government in Bioethics Policy Discourse

11. Genomics, Gender and Gender Capital: The Need for an Embodied Ethics of Reproduction

Part IV: Reimagining Bioethics and Expanding Borders
Introduction by the editors

12. Sociological Contributions to Developing Ethical Standards for Medical Research in Very Poor Countries: The Case of Nepal

13. Not All Children are Created Equal: Inequities, Life Course and the Social Production of the Diabetes Epidemic

14. Changing the Subject: Science, Subjectivity and the Structuring of Ethical Implications