Hippocrates' Maze Ethical Explorations of the Medical Labyrinth

by Nelson, James Lindemann

• ISBN13: 9780742513853
• ISBN10: 0742513858
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-24
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In Nelson's typically inviting and graceful style, the essays collected in Hippocrates' Maze explore the labyrinth of contemporary health care, and arrive at some unusual findings about death and decisionmaking, justice and families, cloning and kinship, and organ donation and intimacy. However, the book's most distinctive conclusions concern bioethics itself: the field is not best seen solely as a source of good advice to doctors, but rather as a way of better understanding our humanity.

Author Biography

James Lindemann Nelson is professor of philosophy and faculty associate at the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences at Michigan State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xiii
The Meaning of the Act: Relationship, Meaning, and Identity in Prenatal Genetic Screening	p. 1
Agency by Proxy	p. 29
Just Expectations: Family Caregivers, Practical Identities, and Social Justice in the Provision of Health Care	p. 53
Death's Gender	p. 71
"Everything Includes Itself in Power": Power, Theory, and the Foundations of Bioethics	p. 89
A Duty to Donate? Selves, Societies, and Organ Procurement	p. 109
Cloning, Families, and the Reproduction of Persons	p. 133
Index	p. 151
About the Author	p. 155
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