Postmodern malpractice : a medical case study in the culture war /

In this work, Colleen Clements presents her case for the need to subject the field of bioethics to a critical external analysis apart from the current postmodern assumptions. Clements argues that, since the 1970s, bioethics has refuted human values in favour of political consensus building. This fai...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clements, Colleen D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : JAI, 2001.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Advances in bioethics ; v. 6.
Temas:
Medical ethics > Case studies.
Medical ethics > Social aspects > Case studies.
Bioethics > Case studies.
Social ethics > Case studies.
Bioethics.
Medicine > Philosophy.
Ethics, Medical
Bioethics
Philosophy, Medical
Éthique médicale > Aspect social > Études de cas.
Éthique médicale.
Bioéthique.
Médecine > Philosophie.
Bio-ethics.
Medical > Ethics.
Medical ethics.
Medical ethics > Social aspects.
Social ethics.
Case Reports
Case studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the Trojan horse of bioethics
  • What really assassinated Hippocrates
  • Bioethics in historical and philosophical context
  • The postmodern environment of bioethics
  • Human reproductive medicine: freedom or regulation
  • Infectious diseases: ethics, experts and policy in AIDS, vCJD, Ebola virus, West Nile virus
  • Abortion: human worth, the end of ethics and political entitlement
  • Politicizing brain death, treatment refusal, physician-assisted suicide, terminal sedation, treatment rationing
  • Health belief model and health delivery systems
  • Alternative medicine, new age, classic shaman systems
  • Behavioral myth, psychiatric abuse, and social manipulation
  • Are patients better off than they were before the sixties: a second opinion and analysis of bioethics
  • Resisting the total society, and a new model for ethics.

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