Experiments in love and death : medicine, postmodernism, microethics, and the body / Paul A. Komesaroff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Komesaroff, Paul A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 274 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Experiments in Love and Death is about the depth and complexity of the ethical issues that arise in illness and medicine. In his concept of 'microethics' Paul Komesaroff provides an alternative to the abstract debates about principles and consequences that have long dominated ethical thought. He shows how ethical decisions are everywhere: in small decisions, in facial expressions, in almost inconspicuous acts of recognition and trust. Through powerful descriptions of case studies and clear and concise explanations of contemporary philosophical theory the book brings discussions about ethics in medicine back to where they belong—to the level of the everyday experience where people actually live, suffer and hope. A fresh and evocative look at the changing world of ethics as it applies to health and illness, this is an important book for all those touched by illness or suffering.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Alphonso Lingis

The Practice of Ethics: A Manifesto

Part I: Medicine, Postmodernism, Microethics and the Body

1. Medicine and the Ethical Conditions of Modernity

2. From Bioethics to Microethics: The Need to Return Ethical Debate to the Clinic

3. Between Nature and Culture: The Ethics and Politics of Animal Experimentation

4. Sexuality and Ethics in the Medical Encounter

5. The Medicalisation of Everyday Life and the Moral Space of the Menopausal Woman

Part II: Love and Death

6. The Many Faces of the Clinic

7. The Experience of Evil

8. Death Sentence

9. Time, Ethics and the Archive

10. At the Gates of the Labyrinth

11. How to End a Life

12. Fardels of the Heart

13. The Case of Miss T

Epilogue

Index

Copyright.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522859874

0522859879

OCLC:

1493617732