03110cam a2200469Ka 4500 ocn662494494 OCoLC 20171018091356.0 m d cr un||||||||| 100907s2001 enk ob 000 0 eng d 9781849500913 (electronic bk.) : �80.95 ; � 119.95 ; $150.95 1849500916 (electronic bk.) : �80.95 ; � 119.95 ; $150.95 0762307579 (hbk.) 9780762307579 (hbk.) ZJC eng ZJC ZJC R725.5 .C54 2001 PSAD bicssc MED050000 bisacsh 608 174/.2 22 Clements, Colleen D. Postmodern malpractice [electronic resource] : a medical case study in the culture war / by Colleen D. Clements. 1st ed. Oxford ; New York : JAI, 2001. 1 online resource (xv, 275 p.) Advances in bioethics, 1479-3709 ; v. 6 Includes bibliographical references. Introduction: the Trojan horse of bioethics -- What really assassinated Hippocrates -- Bioethics in historical and philosophical context -- The postmodern environment of bioethics -- Human reproductive medicine: freedom or regulation -- Infectious diseases: ethics, experts and policy in AIDS, vCJD, Ebola virus, West Nile virus -- Abortion: human worth, the end of ethics and political entitlement -- Politicizing brain death, treatment refusal, physician-assisted suicide, terminal sedation, treatment rationing -- Health belief model and health delivery systems -- Alternative medicine, new age, classic shaman systems -- Behavioral myth, psychiatric abuse, and social manipulation -- Are patients better off than they were before the sixties: a second opinion and analysis of bioethics -- Resisting the total society, and a new model for ethics. In this work, Colleen Clements presents her case for the need to subject the field of bioethics to a critical external analysis apart from the current postmodern assumptions. Clements argues that, since the 1970s, bioethics has refuted human values in favour of political consensus building. This failure to recognize basic human values in the ethical critique of modern medicine has lead to a dehumanization of the medical system by the field. Clements proceeds to advocate a naturalistic theory of bioethics that reinstates primary human values. Description based on print version record. Medical ethics Case studies. Medical ethics Social aspects Case studies. Bioethics Case studies. Social ethics Case studies. Bio-ethics. bicssc Medical Ethics. bisacsh Print version: Clements, Colleen D. Postmodern malpractice. 1st ed. Oxford ; New York : JAI, 2001 0762307579 (DLC) 00066301 (OCoLC)45393273 Advances in bioethics ; v. 6 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1479-3709/6 SSbacklist 222920 222920