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Bioethics and Society Raymond Devries

Bioethics and Society von Raymond Devries

Bioethics and Society Raymond Devries


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Zusammenfassung

Features essays by leading medical sociologists/anthropologists and medical ethicists who consider the full range of cultural, economic, and social dimensions of bioethics. This text views the field of bioethics from a sociological viewpoint - exploring how and why bioethics came to be a player in American medicine.

Bioethics and Society Zusammenfassung

Bioethics and Society: Constructing the Ethical Enterprise Raymond Devries

For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Medical Sociology, Sociology of Health, Medical Ethics, Bioethics.

This reader features essays by leading medical sociologists/anthropologists and medical ethicists who consider the full range of cultural, economic, and social dimensions of bioethics This is the first text to view the field of bioethics from a sociological viewpoint - exploring how and why bioethics came to be a player in American medicine. Cutting-edge in perspective, it provides a firsthand look at how a new discipline and its practitioners emerge, and provides a model for applying sociology to a field of medicine. The book is useful to students of medical sociology and medical ethics.

Inhaltsverzeichnis



Preface.


Contributors.


1. Donald W. Light and Glenn McGee, On the Social Embeddedness of Bioethics.

I. THE SOCIAL SOURCES OF BIOETHICS.

2. Jonathan B. Imber, Medical Publicity before Bioethics: Nineteenth-Century Illustrations of Twentieth-Century Dilemmas.
3. Paul Root Wolpe, The Triumph of Autonomy in American Bioethics: A Sociological View.
4. Jeanne Guillemin, Bioethics and the Coming of the Corporation to Medicine.
5. Jonathan D. Moreno and Valerie Hurt, How the Atomic Energy Commission Discovered Informed Consent.

II. THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF BIOETHICS.

6. Charles L. Bosk and Joel Frader, Institutional Ethics Committees: Sociological Oxymoron, Empirical Black Box.
7. Rob Houtepen, The Social Construction of Euthanasia and Medical Ethics in the Netherlands.
8. Dorothy C. Wertz, International Research in Bioethics: The Challenges of Cross-Cultural Interpretation.

III. DOING BIOETHICS.

9. Eugene B. Gallagher, Pamela Schlomann, Rebecca S. Sloan, Jessica Mesman, Julie B. Brown, and Anna Cholewinska, To Enrich Bioethics, Add One Part Social to One Part Clinical.
10. Bette-Jane Crigger, As Time Goes By: An Intellectual Ethnography of Bioethics.
11. Karen G. Gervais, Changing Society, Changing Medicine, Changing Bioethics.

IV. SOCIOLOGY IN BIOETHICS.

12. Raymond DeVries and Peter Conrad, Why Bioethics Needs Sociology.
13. Bruce Jennings, Autonomy and Difference: The Travails of Liberalism in Bioethics.

AFTERWORD.

14. Renee C. Fox and Raymond DeVries, The Sociology of Bioethics.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR010271311
9780135312520
0135312523
Bioethics and Society: Constructing the Ethical Enterprise Raymond Devries
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Pearson Education (US)
19980304
320
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