On Face Transplantation

Life and Ethics in Experimental Biomedicine
2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-45271-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 74 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 249 g

Drawing together interview material, medical publications, and first-hand accounts, this book shows that what is being remade in the burgeoning medical field of face transplantation is not only the lives of patients, but also the very ways that state institutions, surgeons, and families make sense of rights, claims for inclusion, and life itself.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor-Alexander, Samuel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Chirurgie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A History of the Present 2. Institutionalized Personhood 3. Self-formation and Ethical Being 4. Constituting a Field Postscript

Über Autor(innen)

Samuel Taylor-Alexander is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and was previously a Visiting Fellow in the Science, Technology and Society Program at Harvard University, USA.