Hippocrates' Maze - Ethical Explorations of the Medical Labyrinth

In Nelson's typically inviting and graceful style, the essays collected in Hippocrates' Maze explore the labyrinth of contemporary health care, and arrive at some unusual findings about death and decisionmaking, justice and families, cloning and kinship, and organ donation and intimacy. However, the book's most distinctive conclusions concern bioethics itself: the field is not best seen solely as a source of good advice to doctors, but rather as a way of better understanding our humanity.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Meaning of the Act: Relationship, Meaning and Identity in Prenatal Genetic Screening Chapter 3 Agency by Proxy Chapter 4 Just Expectations: Family Caregivers, Practical Identities and Social Justice in the Provision of Health Care Chapter 5 Death's Gender Chapter 6 'Everything Includes Itself in Power:' Power, Theory and the Foundations of Bioethics Chapter 7 A Duty to Donate? Selves, Societies and Organ Procurement Chapter 8 Cloning, Families, and the Reproduction of Persons

About the author

By James Lindemann Nelson

Product details

• Authors: James Nelson, James Lindemann Nelson, Nelson James Lindemann
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.12.2002
• EAN: 9780742513853
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-1385-3
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 230 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 259 g
• Series: Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Ethics, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct