Troubled Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernism, Medical Ethics, and the Body

With transplant surgery, abortion, and radical new technologies for human reproduction and prolonging life as part of our everyday experience, the need to consider ethical issues in medicine almost goes without saying. But the field of traditional biomedical ethics attracts plenty of criticism for its narrow theoretical perspectives and its ignorance of wider philosophical concerns.
Troubled Bodies breaks new ground by placing medical ethics in a broad framework of philosophical and cultur...