medicine, postmodernism, microethics, and the body /
First Statement of Responsibility
Paul Komesaroff.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Carlton, Victoria, Australia :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Melbourne University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xxviii, 274 pages.
SERIES
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MUP academic monographs
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.