postconventional challenges
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Shildrick, Margrit > (ed.)
- Creator
- Mykitiuk, Roxanne > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Shildrick, Margrit
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- WER 3 2005
- Thesaurus
- lichamen, ziekten, biologie, voortplantingstechnologie, theorieën, ethiek, bundel
- Description
- Bioethics and the body are discussed in feminist and postmodernist terms. Issues in philosophy, law, bioscientific research, psychiatry, cultural studies, and feminism are addressed. After exploring theories of difference, the authors consider specific issues—including HIV, addiction, borderline personality disorder, disability and cancer—that challenge the principles of conventional bioethics. The traditional feminist ethics of care in the context of new reproductive technology is discussed as well as genetic and genomic issues, and some specifically anomalous forms of being-in-the-body, such as intersex conditions.