Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges

Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges
Format
Paperback
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Country
United States
Published
15 June 2005
Pages
328
ISBN
9780262693202

Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges

After exploring notions of difference in both feminist and postmodernist terms, the book considers specific issues - including HIV, addiction, borderline personality disorder, and cancer - that challenge the principles of conventional bioethics. The focus then turns to questions raised by biotechnology: one essay rethinks the traditional feminist ethics of care in the context of new reproductive technology, while others tackle genetic and genomic issues. Finally, the book looks at embodiment and some specifically anomalous forms of being-in-the-body, including a consideration of intersex infants and children that draws on feminist, postructuralist, and queer theory.

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