Product Description: This book is a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between the social sciences and the appearance and growth of bioethics, and provides new analysis on how ordinary questions become “bioethical” questions. Provides new analysis on the variations between different countries and their health systems Questions why some bioethical issues fail to attract the attention of bioethicists Investigates the effect of the rise of bioethics in the field of medical sociology An essential text for medical sociologists, medical anthropologists, bioethicists, and to the increasingly large audience of those interested in the relationship between the social sciences and bioethics...read more

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Examines the laws regulating midwives, assesses the impact of these laws on health care, and compares the legal situation in Arizona, Texas, and California