Ethics of the Body Postconventional Challenges 1st Edition by Margrit Shildrick, Roxanne Mykitiuk ISBN 978-0262195232 0262195232

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ISBN 10: 0262195232

ISBN 13: 978-0262195232

Author: Margrit Shildrick, Roxanne Mykitiuk

The provocative contention of the postmodernist and feminist essays in Ethics of theBody is that conventional bioethics is out of touch, despite its growing profile. It is out of touchwith an ongoing phenomenological sense of bodies themselves; with the impact of postmodernist theoryas it problematizes the certainties of binary thinking; and with a postmodern culture in whichbioscientific developments force us to question what is meant by the notion of the human self. Theauthors demonstrate that the conventional normative framework of bioethics is called into questionby issues as wide ranging as genetic manipulation, disability, high-tech prosthetics, andintersexuality. The essays show how both the theory and practice of bioethics can benefit frompostmodernism’s characteristic fluidity and multiplicity, as well as from the insights of areconceived feminist bioethics. They address issues in philosophy, law, bioscientific research,psychiatry, cultural studies, and feminism from a “postconventional” perspective that looks beyondthe familiar ideas of the body, proposing not a bioethics about the body but a radical ethics of thebody.After exploring notions of difference in both feminist and postmodernist terms, the bookconsiders specific issues — including HIV, addiction, borderline personality disorder, and cancer– that challenge the principles of conventional bioethics. The focus then turns to questions raisedby biotechnology: one essay rethinks the traditional feminist ethics of care in the context of newreproductive technology, while others tackle genetic and genomic issues. Finally, the book looks atembodiment and some specifically anomalous forms of being-in-the-body, including a consideration ofintersex infants and children that draws on feminist, postructuralist, and queer theory.

Table of contents: 

I Introduction
1 Beyond the Body of Bioethics: Challenging the Conventions
Margrit Shildrick

II Critical Differences
2 Attending to Difference: Phenomenology and Bioethics
Philipa Rothfield
3 Admitting All Variations? Postmodernism and Genetic Normality
Jackie Leach Scully

III Thinking Through Crisis
4 The Measure of HIV as a Matter of Bioethics
Marsha Rosengarten
5 Addiction and the Bioethics of Difference
Helen Keane
6 Liberatory Psychiatry and an Ethics of the In-Between
Nancy Potter
7 A Bioethics of Failure: Antiheroic Cancer Narratives
Lisa Diedrich

IV The Challenge of Biotechnology
8 Biomedicine and Moral Agency in a Complex World
Sylvia Nagl

9 Reproductive Technology and the Political Limits of Care
Carol Bacchi and Chris Beasley

10 Genetics and the Legal Conception of Self
Isabel Karpin

11 The Devouring: Genetics, Abjection, and the Limits of Law
Karen O’Connell

V Rethinking the Materiality of Embodiment

12 A “Genethics” That Makes Sense: Take Two
Rosalyn Diprose

13 Queer Kids: Toward Ethical Clinical Interactions with Intersex People

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