Naturalized Bioethics Toward Responsible Knowing and Practice
- New York Cambridge University 2009
- 275p
includes index and biblioraphy
Moral bodies: epistemologies of embodiment Choosing surgical birth: Desire and the nature of bioethical advice Holding on the edmund: The relational work of identity Caring, minimal autonomy, and the limits of liberalism Narrative, complexity, and context: autonomy as an epistemic value Toward a naturalized narrative bioethics Motivating health: empathy and the normative activity of coping Economies of hope in a period of transition: parents in the time leading up to their childs liver transplantation Consent as grant of authority: A care ethics reading of informed consent Porfessional lovein care and the bearable heaviness of being Ideal theory bioethics and the exclusion of people with severe congnitive disabilities Epilogue: natruralized bioethics in practice