Ethics, Moral Life and the Body: Sociological Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Rhonda M. Shaw; (ed.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 247
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Shaw addresses the 'ethical turn' in contemporary sociological thinking, by exploring the contribution of sociology and the social sciences to bioethical debates about morality and tissue exchange practices.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Defining Ethics and Morality....Pages 11-36
Moral Judgement and Embodied Ethics....Pages 37-58
Sociology and Morality....Pages 59-86
Sociology and Bioethics....Pages 87-114
Organ and Tissue Donation....Pages 115-144
Assisted Human Reproduction....Pages 145-176
Breast Milk Sharing and Exchange....Pages 177-200
Conclusion: Ethics and Doing Sociology....Pages 201-203
Back Matter....Pages 205-239

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