Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare by Holmes, Dave; Murray, Stuart J.;

Challenging the Principle of Autonomy in Bioethics

Series: Medical Law and Ethics;

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Edition number 1
Publisher Routledge
Date of Publication 28 April 2009

ISBN 9780754673965
Binding Hardback
No. of pages258 pages
Size 234x156 mm
Weight 612 g
Language English

Short description:

This volume brings together theorists, practitioners and clinicians to present a variety of related disciplinary concerns and perspectives on bioethics.

Long description:

Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare argues that traditional modes of bioethics are proving incommensurable with burgeoning biotechnologies and consequently, emerging subjectivities. Drawn from diverse disciplines, this volume works toward a new mode of discourse in bioethics, offering a critique of the current norms and constraints under which Western healthcare operates. The contributions imagine new, less paternalistic, terms by which bioethics might proceed - terms that do not resort to exclusively Western models of liberal humanism or to the logic of neoliberal economies. It is argued that in this way, we can begin to develop an ethical vocabulary that does justice to the challenges of our age. Bringing together theorists, practitioners and clinicians to present a wide variety of related disciplinary concerns and perspectives on bioethics, this volume challenges the underlying assumptions that continue to hold sway in the ethics of medicine and health sciences.

'Rarely does one find a volume that offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on the ethics of health care. In these essays we find trenchant analysis of the institutional and practical conditions of care, but also a theory of the body, its dependency, and the ethical claims it makes. Although "autonomy" is often defended as a key value in thinking about patients' rights, it also gets in the way of conceptualizing the inter-relationality of bodily experience. It is only because we are bound to others that we can make a rights claim to begin with. Murray and Holmes' collection allows us to rethink radically what it means to care for the body. It should appeal to clinicians, philosophers, social theorists, and ethicists as they take up the challenge of rethinking the ties that bind.' Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley, USA 'Bravo! Dramatic changes in biomedical technoscience have been accompanied by new social - and bioethical - relations. Here at last is an ambitious, smart, theoretically sophisticated book that grasps the transformations. The issues raised - and thoughtful alternatives offered - demand engagement by all concerned about health and medicine today.' Adele E. Clarke, University of California, San Francisco, USA 'It is a delight to read a bioethics book which for once does not discuss over and over again the "four principles of bioethics", but offers a critical stance on an area which is filled up with questions concerning the right and fair application of procedures. There is no doubt that we should also pay attention to these questions. A profound philosophical discussion at the level of the paradigm of bioethics itself is more than welcome.' Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy

Towards a Critical Bioethics, Stuart J.Murray, DaveHolmes; Part I Clinical Interventions; Chapter 1 My Life? My Choice? Ethics, Autonomy, and Evidence-Based Practice in Contemporary Clinical Care, KimWalker; Chapter 2 “You Might Not Feel Like Yourself”, Jennifer M.Poole, MargritShildrick, PatriciaMcKeever, SusanAbbey, HeatherRoss; Chapter 3 Embracing the Intersubjective, RoanneThomas-MacLean; Part II Biopolitical Interventions; Chapter 4 Biotechnology and the Governance of Life, AnnRobertson; Chapter 5 “Hail the Cure!”, BradleyBryan; Chapter 6 The Perils of Scientific Obedience, Stuart J.Murray; Chapter 7 Contesting the Autistic Subject, MichaelOrsini; Part III Gendered Interventions; Chapter 8 The View from Inside, ShelleyWall; Chapter 9 The Politics of Medico-Legal Recognition, SarahBurgess; Chapter 10 Journeys of Choice? Abortion, Travel, and Women’s Autonomy, ChristabelleSethna, MarionDoull; Part IV Cultural Interventions; Chapter 11 The Code of Ethics in Medicine, TwylaGibson; Chapter 12 Sleeping Ethics, Deborah LynnSteinberg; Chapter 13 The Last Temptation of Marion Woodman, David L.Clark;