| Bioethics in Social Context Contributor(s): Hoffmaster, Barry (Author) |
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ISBN: 1566398444 ISBN-13: 9781566398442 Publisher: Temple University Press OUR PRICE: $86.93 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2001 Annotation: These original essays by medical sociologists, anthropologists and bioethicists examine the difficult ethical decisions involved in surgery, treatment, and life support. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Ethics |
| Dewey: 174.2 |
| LCCN: 00055213 |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.21" W x 9.25" (1.04 lbs) 277 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The problems of bioethics are embedded in people's lives and social worlds. They are shaped by individual biographies and relationships, by the ethos and institutions of health care, by economic and political pressures, by media depictions, and by the assumptions, beliefs, and values that permeate cultures and times. Yet these forces are largely ignored by a professional bioethics that concentrates on the theoretical justification of decisions. The original essays in this volume use qualitative research methods to expose the multiple contexts within which the problems of bioethics arise, are defined and debated, and ultimately resolved. In a provocative concluding essay, one contributor asks his fellow ethnographers to reflect on the ethical problems of ethnography. |