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Bioethics In Social Context, Barry Hoffmaster
Bioethics In Social Context, Barry Hoffmaster
C. Barry Hoffmaster
"The problems of bioethics are embedded in people's lives and social worlds. They are shaped by individual biographies and relationships, by the ethos and institutions of health care, by economic and political pressures, by media depictions, and by the assumptions, beliefs, and values that permeate cultures and times. Yet these forces are largely ignored by a professional bioethics that concentrates on the theoretical justification of decisions.
The original essays in this volume use qualitative research methods to expose the multiple contexts within which the problems of bioethics arise, are defined and debated, and ultimately resolved. In a provocative concluding essay, …
Morality And The Social Sciences, Barry Hoffmaster
Morality And The Social Sciences, Barry Hoffmaster
C. Barry Hoffmaster
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