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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Main Author Clements, Colleen D.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford ; New York : JAI, 2001.
Edition1st ed.
SeriesAdvances in bioethics ; v. 6
Subjects
Medical ethics > Case studies.
Medical ethics > Social aspects > Case studies.
Bioethics > Case studies.
Social ethics > Case studies.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849500913
1849500916
0762307579
9780762307579
ISSN1479-3709 ;
DOI10.1016/S1479-3709(2001)6
Physical Description1 online resource (xv, 275 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • 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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