medicine, postmodernism, microethics, and the body /
Paul Komesaroff.
Carlton, Victoria, Australia :
Melbourne University Press,
2008.
xxviii, 274 pages.
MUP academic monographs
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. I. Medicine, postmodernism, microethics and the body -- 1. Medicine and the ethical conditions of modernity -- 2. From bioethics to microethics : the need to return ethical debate to the clinic -- 3. Between nature and culture : the ethics and politics of animal experimentation -- 4. Sexuality and ethics in the medical encounter -- 5. The medicalisation of everyday life and the moral space of the menopausal woman -- Pt. II. Love and death -- 6. The many faces of the clinic -- 7. The experience of evil -- 8. Death sentence -- 9. Time, ethics and the archive -- 10. At the gates of the labyrinth -- 11. How to end a life -- 12. Fardels of the heart -- 13. The case of Miss T.