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Author:   Alan Blum (York University, Canada) ,  Stuart Murray
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9781472475596

ISBN 10:   1472475593
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   03 August 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction: The Dialectic of Care Part 1: Institutional Contraints, Consent and End-of-life 1. Informed Consent and the Social Regulation of Caregiver Involvement in End-of-life Care 2. Judgement, Care and Informed Consent 3. End-of-life Conflicts, the Law and Arendt's Political Thinking Part 2: Biomedicine, Social Services and Reparation in the Postcolony 4. The Time of a Life: Ethics and Care in the Case of a Young First Nations Girl 5. Community Development Amongst Urban Aboriginals: Case Study of the Healing of the Seven Generations Canoe Project 6. Postcolonial Negotiations: Care, Aboriginal Rights, and the Challenge of Democracy Part 3: Communication, Ethical Collisions and the Realities of Care 7. End-of-life as a Symbolic Order: Age in an Era of Mechanical Reproduction 8. Good Patient-Bad Patient: The Ethical Imaginary of Cancer 9. The Clinical Epistemology of Ludwig Binswanger (1881-1966): Psychiatry as a Science of the Singular 10. Critique of Solution-focused Brief Therapy 11. Rethinking the Concept of Care Afterword: Care, Giving: An Ethical Critique

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Alan Blum is Executive Director of the Culture of Cities Centre and Senior Professor of Sociology and Communication and Culture at York University, Canada. He is the author of The Grey Zone in Health and Illness, Theorizing and The Imaginative Structure of the City, and co-author of On the Beginning of Social Inquiry and Self-Reflection in the Arts and Sciences. Stuart J. Murray is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Rhetoric & Ethics in the Department of English Language & Literature and the Department of Health Sciences at Carleton University, Canada. He is co-editor of Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare: Challenging the Principle of Autonomy in Bioethics.

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