Postmodern malpractice a medical case study in the culture war /

• Main Author: Clements, Colleen D.
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford ; New York : JAI, 2001.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Advances in bioethics ; v. 6
• Subjects: Medical ethics > Case studies.; Medical ethics > Social aspects > Case studies.; Bioethics > Case studies.; Social ethics > Case studies.; Bio-ethics.; Medical > Ethics.

In this work, Colleen Clements presents her case for the need to subject the field of bioethics to a critical external analysis apart from the current postmodern assumptions. Clements argues that, since the 1970s, bioethics has refuted human values in favour of political consensus building. This fai...