What Would You Do?

Name: What Would You Do?
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226066776
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Juggling Bioethics and Ethnography

Автор: Charles L. Bosk

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: The University of Chicago Press

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In hospital rooms across the country, doctors, nurses, patients, and their families grapple with que...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Charles L. Bosk

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2008

страници

288

EAN

9780226066776

ISBN

0226066770

Enbook ID

04542804

Издател

The University of Chicago Press

Теглоt

442

Размери

230 x 155 x 20

Пълно описание

In hospital rooms across the country, doctors, nurses, patients, and their families grapple with questions of life and death. Recently, they have been joined at the bedside by a new group of professional experts, bioethicists, whose presence raises a host of urgent questions. How has bioethics evolved into a legitimate specialty? When is such expertise necessary? How do bioethicists make their decisions? And whose interests do they serve?Renowned sociologist Charles L. Bosk has been observing medical care for thirty-five years. In "What Would You Do?" he brings his extensive experience to bear on these questions while reflecting on the ethical dilemmas that his own ethnographic research among surgeons and genetic counselors has provoked. Bosk considers whether the consent given to ethnographers by their subjects can ever be fully voluntary and informed. He questions whether promises of confidentiality and anonymity can or should be made. And he wonders if social scientists overestimate the benefits of their work while downplaying the risks.Vital for practitioners of both the newly prominent field of bioethics and the long-established craft of ethnography, "What Would You Do?" will also engross anyone concerned with how our society addresses difficult health care issues.

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