Postmodern malpractice a medical case study in the culture war

• Main Author: Clements, Colleen D.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford ; New York : JAI, 2001.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Advances in bioethics ; v. 6
• Subjects: Medical ethics > Case studies.; Medical ethics > Social aspects > Case studies.; Bioethics > Case studies.; Social ethics > Case studies.; Bio-ethics.; Medical > Ethics.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781849500913 (electronic bk.) : 1849500916 (electronic bk.) : 0762307579 (hbk.); 9780762307579 (hbk.)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 275 p.)

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...