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Book SynopsisDeals with the topic of health inequalities and health disparities. This volume includes an introductory look at the issue of health care inequalities and disparities, racial and ethnic inequalities and disparities, issues related to substance abuse, and mental health and related concerns. It also looks at issues of vulnerable women.
Table of ContentsWhose Body (Of Opinion) is it Anyway? Historicizing Tissue Ownership and Examining ‘Public Opinion’ in Bioethics. From Cruzan. The Changing Context of Neonatal Decision Making: are the Consumerist and Disability Rights Movements Having an Effect?. “What are We Really Doing Here?” Journeys into Hospital Ethics Committees in Germany: Nurses’ Participation and The(ir) Marginalization of Care. Healthcare Ethics Committees Without Function? Locations and Forms of Ethical Speech in a ‘Society of Presents’. Ethical Mindfulness: Narrative Analysis and Everyday Ethics in Health Care. Making the Autonomous Client: How Genetic Counselors Construct Autonomous Subjects. “… But you Cannot Influence the Direction of your Thinking”: Guiding Self-Government in Bioethics Policy Discourse. Cutting Risk: The Ethics of Male Circumcision, HIV Prevention, and Wellness. Genomics, Gender and Genetic Capital: The Need for an Embodied Ethics of Reproduction. What Does Justice have to do with It? A Bioethical and Sociological Perspective on the Diabetes Epidemic. Sociological Contributions to Developing Ethical Standards for Medical Research in Very Poor Countries: The Example of Nepal. Changing the Subject: Science, Subjectivity, and the Structuring of Ethical Implications. List of Contributors. Introductory Preface. Part I: Placing Bioethics Historically. Part II: The Sociology of a Working Bioethics: Private Narratives. Part III: Macrosociological Perspectives: Bioethics in the Policy Arena. Part IV: Re-Imagining Bioethics: Expanding the Borders of Bioethical Inquiry and Action.
