Bioethics in Social Context
Barry Hoffmaster
ISBN 10: 1566398444 ISBN 13: 9781566398442
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The problems of bioethics are embedded in people s lives and social worlds. This work uses research methods to expose multiple contexts within which the problems of bioethics arise, are defined and debated, and resolved. It also includes an essay where one . Seller Inventory # 867691105
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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.
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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Title: Bioethics in Social Context
Publisher: TEMPLE UNIV PR
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Gebunden
Condition: New