Bioethics in Social Context

Barry Hoffmaster

ISBN 10: 1566398452 / ISBN 13: 9781566398459

Published by Temple University Press,U.S., US, 2001

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The problems of bioethics are embedded in people's lives and social worlds. They are shaped by individual biographies and relationships, by the ethos and institutions of health care, by economic and political pressures, by media depictions, and by the assumptions, beliefs, and values that permeate cultures and times. Yet these forces are largely ignored by a professional bioethics that concentrates on the theoretical justification of decisions. The original essays in this volume use qualitative research methods to expose the multiple contexts within which the problems of bioethics arise, are defined and debated, and ultimately resolved. In a provocative concluding essay, one contributor asks his fellow ethnographers to reflect on the ethical problems of ethnography.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bioethics in Social Context
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S., US
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1566398452
• ISBN 13: 9781566398459
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The essays in this text use qualitative research to expose the multiple contexts within which the problems of bio-ethics arise, are defined and debated, and ultimately resolved. The ethical problems of ethnography are specifically reflected upon in a concluding essay.

From the Publisher

Arguing for—and against—the value and practice of ethnography in medicine