9780822349174-0822349175-Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics

Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics

ISBN-13: 9780822349174
ISBN-10: 0822349175
Edition: 1
Author: Karla FC Holloway
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 256 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780822349174
ISBN-10: 0822349175
Edition: 1
Author: Karla FC Holloway
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 256 pages

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Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics (ISBN-13: 9780822349174 and ISBN-10: 0822349175), written by authors Karla FC Holloway, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2011. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Health Policy (Administration & Medicine Economics) books. You can easily purchase or rent Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Health Policy books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.45.

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In Private Bodies, Public Texts, Karla FC Holloway examines instances where medical issues and information that would usually be seen as intimate, private matters are forced into the public sphere. As she demonstrates, the resulting social dramas often play out on the bodies of women and African Americans. Holloway discusses the spectacle of the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case and the injustice of medical researchers’ use of Henrietta Lacks’s cell line without her or her family’s knowledge or permission. She offers a provocative reading of the Tuskegee syphilis study and a haunting account of the ethical dilemmas that confronted physicians, patients, and families when a hospital became a space for dying rather than healing during Hurricane Katrina; even at that dire moment, race mattered. Private Bodies, Public Texts is a compelling call for a cultural bioethics that attends to the historical and social factors that render some populations more vulnerable than others in medical and legal contexts. Holloway proposes literature as a conceptual anchor for discussions of race, gender, bioethics, and the right to privacy. Literary narratives can accommodate thick description, multiple subjectivities, contradiction, and complexity.

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