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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Duke Univ Pr
Publication date
March 14, 2011
Pages
225
Binding
Paperback
Edition
1
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780822349174
ISBN-10
0822349175
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 8 in.
Weight
0.80 lbs.
Original list price
$22.95
Other format details
university press
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
In Private Bodies, Public Texts, Karla FC Holloway examines instances where medical issues and information that would usually be seen as intimate, private matters are forced into the public sphere. As she demonstrates, the resulting social dramas often play out on the bodies of women and African Americans. Holloway discusses the spectacle of the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case and the injustice of medical researchersâ use of Henrietta Lacksâs cell line without her or her familyâs knowledge or permission. She offers a provocative reading of the Tuskegee syphilis study and a haunting account of the ethical dilemmas that confronted physicians, patients, and families when a hospital became a space for dying rather than healing during Hurricane Katrina; even at that dire moment, race mattered. Private Bodies, Public Texts is a compelling call for a cultural bioethics that attends to the historical and social factors that render some populations more vulnerable than others in medical and legal contexts. Holloway proposes literature as a conceptual anchor for discussions of race, gender, bioethics, and the right to privacy. Literary narratives can accommodate thick description, multiple subjectivities, contradiction, and complexity.
Editions
Hardcover
1 edition from Duke Univ Pr (February 21, 2011)
9780822348948 | details & prices | 225 pages | 5.75 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $79.95
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
1 edition from Duke Univ Pr (March 14, 2011)
9780822349174 | details & prices | 225 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $22.95
About: In Private Bodies, Public Texts, Karla FC Holloway examines instances where medical issues and information that would usually be seen as intimate, private matters are forced into the public sphere.
About: In Private Bodies, Public Texts, Karla FC Holloway examines instances where medical issues and information that would usually be seen as intimate, private matters are forced into the public sphere.
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