Naturalized Bioethics - Toward Responsible Knowing and Practice (Paperback)

Naturalized Bioethics represents a revolutionary change in how health care ethics is practiced. It calls for bioethicists to give up their dependence on utilitarianism and other ideal moral theories and instead to move toward a self-reflexive, socially inquisitive, politically critical, and inclusive ethics. Wary of idealizations that bypass social realities, the naturalism in ethics that is developed in this volume is empirically nourished and acutely aware that ethical theory is the practice of particular people in particular times, places, cultures, and professional environments. The essays in this collection examine the variety of embodied experiences of individual people. They situate the bioethicist within the clinical or research context, take seriously the web of relationships in which all human beings are nested, and explore a number of the many different kinds of power relations that inform health care encounters. Naturalized Bioethics aims to help bioethicists, doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, disability studies scholars, medical researchers, and other health professionals address the ethical issues surrounding health care.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2008
First published:	2009
Editors:	Hilde Lindemann • Marian Verkerk • Margaret Urban Walker
Dimensions:	230 x 151 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	292
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-71940-7
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Bio-ethics Promotions
LSN:	0-521-71940-2
Barcode:	9780521719407

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