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Social Science Perspectives on Medical Ethics

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. George Weisz

    1. Department of Humanities and Social Studies in Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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Part of the book series: Culture, Illness and Healing (CIHE, volume 16)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • George Weisz
      Pages 3-15

  4. Ethics in the Public Arena

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Reaching Consensus About Death: Heart Transplants and Cultural Identity in Japan

      • Margaret Lock, Christina Honde
      Pages 99-119

    3. Ethics, Politics and Contraception: Canada and the Licensing of Depo-Provera

      • Patricia A. Kaufert
      Pages 121-141

  6. Medical Ethics and Social Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219
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    2. Medical Anthropology and the Comparative Study of Medical Ethics

      • Richard W. Lieban
      Pages 221-239

    3. Morality and the Social Sciences

      • Barry Hoffmaster
      Pages 241-260

    4. Ethics and Ethnography in Neonatal Intensive Care

      • Bruce Jennings
      Pages 261-272
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About this book

Medical or hio- ethics has in recent years been a growth industry. Journals, Centers and Associations devoted to the subject proliferate. Medical schools seem increasingly to be filling rare positions in the humanities and social sciences with ethicists. Hardly a day passes without some media scrutiny of one or another ethical dilemma resulting from our new-found ability to transform the natural conditions of life. Although bioethics is a self-consciously interdisciplinary field, it has not attracted the collaboration of many social scientists. In fact, social scientists who specialize in the study of medicine have in many cases watched its development with a certain ambivalence. No one disputes the significance and often the painfulness of the issues and choices being addressed. But there is something about the way these issues are usually handled which seems somehow inappropri­ ate if not wrong-headed to one trained in a discipline like sociology or history. In their analyses of complex situations, ethicists often appear grandly oblivious to the social and cultural context in which these occur, and indeed to empirical referents of any sort. Nor do they seem very conscious of the cultural specificity of many of the values and procedures they utilize when making ethical judg­ ments. The unease felt by many in the social sciences was given articulate expression in a paper by Renee Fox and Judith Swazey which appeared in 1984.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Humanities and Social Studies in Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    George Weisz

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Science Perspectives on Medical Ethics

  • Editors: George Weisz

  • Series Title: Culture, Illness and Healing

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1930-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0566-8Published: 31 December 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7361-5Published: 05 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1930-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 298

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Ethics, Anthropology, Sociology, general

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