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Author: Paul A. Komesaroff
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.10cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9780822316886
ISBN 10: 0822316889
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 14 November 1995
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Troubled Bodies draws on philosophical developments that question the reigning paradigms in ethics and, accordingly, will open new avenues as it reimagines the very nature of medical ethics. -Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University The approach taken by these essays to the problem of the body by way of matters and debates in medical ethics is certainly instructive and productive. Troubled Bodies presents an excellent introduction to the philosophical and cultural settings of a postmodern medical ethics. -Mark Seltzer, Cornell University
"""Troubled Bodies draws on philosophical developments that question the reigning paradigms in ethics and, accordingly, will open new avenues as it reimagines the very nature of medical ethics.""—Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University ""The approach taken by these essays to the problem of the body by way of matters and debates in medical ethics is certainly instructive and productive. Troubled Bodies presents an excellent introduction to the philosophical and cultural settings of a postmodern medical ethics.""—Mark Seltzer, Cornell University"
The approach taken by these essays to the problem of the body by way of matters and debates in medical ethics is certainly instructive and productive. Troubled Bodies presents an excellent introduction to the philosophical and cultural settings of a postmodern medical ethics. --Mark Seltzer, Cornell University
This book is worth reading for . . . its effort to clarify how postmodernism is primarily about how we regard the body. <br>--Gary S. Belkin, Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law
""Troubled Bodies draws on philosophical developments that question the reigning paradigms in ethics and, accordingly, will open new avenues as it reimagines the very nature of medical ethics.""-Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University ""The approach taken by these essays to the problem of the body by way of matters and debates in medical ethics is certainly instructive and productive. Troubled Bodies presents an excellent introduction to the philosophical and cultural settings of a postmodern medical ethics.""-Mark Seltzer, Cornell University
Author Information
Paul A. Komesaroff is Executive Director, Eleanor Shaw Centre for the Study of Medicine, Society, and Law, Baker Medical Research Institute, Australia
