Extending the Boundaries of Care: Medical Ethics and Caring Practices
Author:   Tamara Kohn ,  Rosemary McKechnie
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Volume:   v. 20
ISBN:  

9781859731413


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 April 1999
Format:   Paperback
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Extending the Boundaries of Care: Medical Ethics and Caring Practices


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Author:   Tamara Kohn ,  Rosemary McKechnie
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Berg Publishers
Volume:   v. 20
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781859731413


ISBN 10:   1859731414
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 April 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Why Do We Care Who Cares?; Part 1: Embodying Care: Giving Voice to Experience; 1: Love, Care and Diagnosis; 2: Triplets: Who Cares?; Part 2: Controlling Care: Rights and Responsibilities; 3: Taking Care? The Depo-Provera Debate; 4: Medical Care as Human Right: The Negation of Law, Citizenship and Power?; Part 3: Framing Care: Alternative Visions in Dialogue; 5: Caring for the Well: Perspectives on Disease Prevention; 6: Identifying Boundaries in Care: Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Men Who Have Sex with Men; Part 4: Nursing Care: Theory and Practice; 7: Ethics as Question; 8: Relative Strangers: Caring for Patients as the Expression of Nurses' Moral/Political Voice

Reviews

'A well written, engaging, and wonderful compilation of work.' Choice 'This book is not for the faint-hearted; readers can expect to be engaging not only with personal experience, but legal and philosophical argument combined with anthropological perspectives - a challenge to mind and practice.' Anthropology in Action 'This book is part of the excellent series on 'Cross-cultural perspectives on women' ... This volume is a useful contribution to the ongoing debate on the best way to live with each other.' Nursing Ethics 'This is a well-organised, interesting publication for those interested in ethics, care and social research, both singularly and in combination.' Medical Sociology News 'This is a rich and insightful collection of essays that deserves to be widely read across a range of undergraduate and professional courses within the sociology of medicine, medical practice and nursing spheres.' Time & Society 'It was interesting to read a range of anthropologically


Author Information

Tamara Kohn Department of Anthropology,University of Durham Rosemary McKechnie Bath College of Higher Education

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