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6%OFFKarla Fc Holloway - Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics - 9780822349174 - V9780822349174
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Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics

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Description for Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics Paperback. An argument for a cultural bioethics that recognizes and attempts to address the greater vulnerability to exploitation experienced by groups including African Americans and women in medical and legal contexts. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL; MBDC; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
In Private Bodies, Public Texts, Karla FC Holloway examines instances where medical issues and information that would usually be seen as intimate, private matters are forced into the public sphere. As she demonstrates, the resulting social dramas often play out on the bodies of women and African Americans. Holloway discusses the spectacle of the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case and the injustice of medical researchers’ use of Henrietta Lacks’s cell line without her or her family’s knowledge or permission. She offers a provocative reading of the Tuskegee syphilis study and a haunting account of the ethical dilemmas that confronted physicians, patients, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822349174
SKU
V9780822349174
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99-1

About Karla Fc Holloway
Karla FC Holloway is James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University, where she also holds appointments in the Law School, Women’s Studies, and African & African American Studies, and is an affiliated faculty with the Institute on Care at the End of Life and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine. She serves on the ... Read more

Reviews for Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics
“In her exceptional book, Holloway turns to literature to ‘illustrate matters of ethical concern and to assist listeners in hearing a patient’s story, in order to develop a more thoughtful perspective on treatment.’ . . . Holloway offers incisive comments that relate fictional episodes to real-life events, enhancing the ability of both to reveal the deep connections that bind ethics ... Read more

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