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Critical interventions in the ethics of healthcare : challenging the principle of autonomy in bioethics / edited by Stuart J. Murray, Ryerson University, Canada and Dave Holmes, University of Ottawa, Canada. - Surrey, England : Ashgate, c2009. - 1 online resource, xiii, 241 pages : illustrations.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

My life? my choice? : ethics, autonomy, and evidence-based practice in contemporary clinical care / Kim Walker -- You might not feel like yourself : on heart transplants, identity, and ethics / Jennifer M. Poole ... [and others] -- Embracing the intersubjective : an ethics of care for chronic illness / Roanne Thomas-MacLean -- Biotechnology and the governance of life : the case of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis / Ann Robertson -- "Hail the cure!" : Althusser, biotechnology, and biopolitics / Bradley Bryan -- The perils of scientific obedience : bioethics under the spectre of biofascism / Stuart J. Murray -- Contesting the autistic subject : biological citizenship and the autism/autistic movement / Michael Orsini -- The view from inside : gendered embodiment and the medical representation of sex / Shelley Wall -- The politics of medico-legal recognition : the terms of gendered subjectivity in the UK Gender Recognition Act / Sarah Burgess -- Journeys of choice? : abortion, travel, and women's autonomy / Christabelle Sethna and Marion Doull -- The code of ethics in medicine : intertextuality and meaning in Plato's Sophist and Hippocrates' oath / Twyla Gibson -- Sleeping ethics : gene, episteme, and the body politic / Deborah Lynn Steinberg -- The last temptation of Marion Woodman : the anorexic remainder in Bone : dying into life / David L. Clark

ISBN: 9780754673965 0754673960 9780754691228 0754691225

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Medical ethics.
Bioethics.
Bioethical Issues.
Delivery of Health Care -- ethics.

Dewey Class. No.: 174.2