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Troubled Bodies draws on philosophical developments that question the reigning paradigms in ethics and, accordingly, will open new avenues as it reimagines the very nature of medical ethics."—Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University
"The approach taken by these essays to the problem of the body by way of matters and debates in medical ethics is certainly instructive and productive.
Troubled Bodies presents an excellent introduction to the philosophical and cultural settings of a postmodern medical ethics."—Mark Seltzer, Cornell University
Table of ContentsIntroduction: postmodern medical ethics? / Paul A. Komesaroff 1
Divide and multiply: culture and politics in the new medical order / Doug White 20
Abortion and embodiment / Catriona Mackenzie 38
From bioethics to microethics: ethical debate and clinical medicine / Paul A. Komesaroff 62
Science, medicine, and illness: rediscovering the patient as a person / Paul Redding 87
The body politic / Peter Murphy 103
Whose body? Feminist views on reproductive technologies / max Charlesworth 125
Making babies, making sense: reproductive technologies, postmodernity, and the ambiguities of feminism / Alison Caddick 142
Bodies and subjects: medical ethics and feminism / Philipa Rothfield 168
The body biomedical ethics forgets / Rosalyn Diprose 202
Female bodies and food: a case of ethics and psychiatry / Denise Russell 222
Glossary 235
index 237
