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Contesting Moralities Nannekke Redclift

Contesting Moralities By Nannekke Redclift

Contesting Moralities by Nannekke Redclift


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Summary

This study examines the contemporary explosion of ethical discourse in the public domain and the growing importance of moral rhetoric as an aspect of social relations.

Contesting Moralities Summary

Contesting Moralities: Science, Identity, Conflict by Nannekke Redclift

Questions of public and private morality, values and choices have become important areas of collective discussion. A key feature of this book is that it takes an ethnographic rather than a philosophical or speculative approach to moral debates. This study examines the contemporary explosion of ethical discourse in the public domain and the growing importance of moral rhetoric as an aspect of social relations.

About Nannekke Redclift

Dr Nanneke Redclift, is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at University College London.

Table of Contents

Part 1 - Moral Rhetoric; Trauma, Guilt assujetetissement; War, space and the legitimacy of violence in Eritrea; Violent Moralities; Truth and Change: moral discourse among Protestants and Catholics in the Netherlands; Part 2 - Moral Exchange; The Importance of sameness; Configuring the moral in breast cancer genetics: the threat and promise of patented gene; Morality, risk and informed consent; Ethics as practice: the erpistemci and normative in implementing predictive genetic thinking; Part 3 - Moral Boundaries; Immoral pathways to citizenship; Contested knowledge, conflicting morality; Bread is first before everything; Held to account: dilemmas of responsibility and reproduction in Contemporary Britain; Moralities in Conflict

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GOR010675069
9781844720149
1844720144
Contesting Moralities: Science, Identity, Conflict by Nannekke Redclift
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2005-05-23
216
N/A
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