Bioethics In Social Context - Softcover

Hoffmaster, Barry

 
9781566398459: Bioethics In Social Context
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ISBN 10: 1566398452 ISBN 13: 9781566398459
Publisher: Temple University Press, 2001

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Barry Hoffmaster is professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Western Ontario. From 1991 to 1996 he was the Director of the Westminster Institute for Ethics and Human Values in London, Ontario, and he served as President of the Canadian Bioethics Society in 1994-94. He is a Fellow of the Hastings Center.

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Publisher
Temple University Press
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1566398452
ISBN 13 
9781566398459
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
419

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