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" Bioethics In Social Context. "
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974347
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b728717
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Hoffmaster, Barry.
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Bioethics In Social Context.
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Philadelphia :: Temple University Press,, 2009.
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1 online resource (244 pages)
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1282047094
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: 1439901163
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: 9781439901168
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Clinical Narratives and Ethical Dilemmas in Geriatrics; 2 Situated Ethics, Culture, and the Brain Death " Problem" in Japan; 3 Constructing Moral Boundaries; 4 Media Images, Genetics, and Culture; 5 Emotions in Medical and Moral Life; 6 A Contextual Approach to Clinical Ethics Consultation; 7 Family Values and Resistance to Genetic Testing; 8 Ethics Committees and Social Change; 9 Irony, Ethnography, and Informed Consent; Afterword; About the Contributors; Index.
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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 de.
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Bioethics.
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Ethnology.
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Medical ethics.
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Medicine.
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Philosophy.
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Bioethics.
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Ethnology.
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Medical ethics.
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Medicine.
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Philosophy.
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174.957174/.2174/.2
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R724.B4826 2001
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