Private Bodies, Public Texts

Author: Karla FC Holloway
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0822348942
Category: Medical

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

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. Download Private Bodies, Public Texts medical books for free.
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 duri Get Private Bodies, Public Texts our bestseller medical books.

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As she demonstrates, the resulting social dramas often play out on the bodies of women and African Americans 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 duri

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