Bioethical issues, sociological perspectives
This volume deals with the topic of health inequalities and health disparities. The volume is divided into five sections. The first section includes an introductory look at the issue of health care inequalities and disparities and also an introduction to the volume. One of the backdrops to this topi...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier JAI
2008.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Advances in medical sociology ; v. 9. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31647625*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- TOC Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introductory preface
- Part I: Placing Bioethics Historically
- CHChapter 1. Whose Body (of Opinion) is it Anyway? Historicizing Tissue Ownership and Examining 'Public Opinion' in Bioethics
- Introduction
- From Waste to Contested Object: The Shifting Status of Human Material in the Twentieth Century
- The Development of Ownership Questions
- Ownership in Court and in the Press: WI-38
- Into the 1980s: Representing Public Concern
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- References
- CHChapter 2. From Cruzan to Schiavo: How Bioethics Entered the ''Culture Wars''
- A Tale of Two Patients
- Frames, Narratives, and Tropes
- Explaining the Contrasts
- The Legacies of Cruzan and Schiavo
- Notes
- References
- CHChapter 3. The Changing Context of Neonatal Decision Making: Are the Consumerist and Disability Rights Movements Having an Effect?
- An Overview of the History of Decision Making
- Who Decides?
- Conclusion
- References
- Part II: The Sociology of a Working Bioethics: Private Narratives
- CHChapter 4. ''What are we Really Doing Here?'' Journeys into Hospital Ethics Committees in Germany: Nurses' Participation and the(IR) Marginalization of Care
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Historical Background and Context
- 3. Caring and Nurses' Participation in Hospital Ethics Committees
- 4. Journeys into Hospital Ethics Committees in Germany: Nurses' Participation and Caring Concerns
- 5. Example A
- 6. Example B
- 7. Example C
- 8. Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgment
- References
- CHChapter 5. Healthcare Ethics Committees Without Function? Locations and Forms of Ethical Speech in a 'Society of Presents'
- Two Commonplace Assumptions
- Practical Interdisciplinarity
- The Location of the Ethical Decision
- Ethical Speakers
- The Format of Ethical Speaking
- Consequences for Ethics or the Ruse of Ethical Reason
- Notes
- References
- CHChapter 6. Ethical Mindfulness: Narrative Analysis and Everyday Ethics in Health Care
- Narrative Ethics
- Story as Process
- Ethical Mindfulness
- Engaging with Narratives
- Hannah's Story
- Engaging with Hannah's Story: a Narrative Ethics Approach
- Hannah's Story: Naming Questions
- Hannah's Story: Sideways Looking Questions
- Hannah's Story: Forward-Looking Questions
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- References
- CHChapter 7. Making the Autonomous Client: How Genetic Counselors Construct Autonomous Subjects
- Literature Review
- Principlism in Bioethics
- Methods
- Genetic Counselors and Nondirective Counseling
- Contracting
- Providing Information
- Giving Options
- Translating
- Reflecting
- Empathy and Support
- Autonomy within Genetic Counseling and Bioethics
- Conclusions: Autonomy and Relationship
- Note
- References
- Part III: Macrosociological Perspectives: Bioethics in the Policy Arena
- CHChapter 8. ''... But You Cannot Influence the Direction of Your Thinking̵.
