Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare Challenging the Principle of Autonomy in Bioethics

Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare argues that traditional modes of bioethics are proving incommensurable with burgeoning biotechnologies and consequently, emerging subjectivities. Drawn from diverse disciplines, this volume works toward a new mode of discourse in bioethics, offering a critique of the current norms and constraints under which Western healthcare operates. The contributions imagine new, less paternalistic, terms by which bioethics might proceed - terms that do not resort to exclusively Western models of liberal humanism or to the logic of neoliberal economies. It is argued that in this way, we can begin to develop an ethical vocabulary that does justice to the challenges of our age. Bringing together theorists, practitioners and clinicians to present a wide variety of related disciplinary concerns and perspectives on bioethics, this volume challenges the underlying assumptions that continue to hold sway in the ethics of medicine and health sciences.

Towards a Critical Bioethics, Stuart J.Murray, DaveHolmes; Part I Clinical Interventions; Chapter 1 My Life? My Choice? Ethics, Autonomy, and Evidence-Based Practice in Contemporary Clinical Care, KimWalker; Chapter 2 “You Might Not Feel Like Yourself”, Jennifer M.Poole, MargritShildrick, PatriciaMcKeever, SusanAbbey, HeatherRoss; Chapter 3 Embracing the Intersubjective, RoanneThomas-MacLean; Part II Biopolitical Interventions; Chapter 4 Biotechnology and the Governance of Life, AnnRobertson; Chapter 5 “Hail the Cure!”, BradleyBryan; Chapter 6 The Perils of Scientific Obedience, Stuart J.Murray; Chapter 7 Contesting the Autistic Subject, MichaelOrsini; Part III Gendered Interventions; Chapter 8 The View from Inside, ShelleyWall; Chapter 9 The Politics of Medico-Legal Recognition, SarahBurgess; Chapter 10 Journeys of Choice? Abortion, Travel, and Women’s Autonomy, ChristabelleSethna, MarionDoull; Part IV Cultural Interventions; Chapter 11 The Code of Ethics in Medicine, TwylaGibson; Chapter 12 Sleeping Ethics, Deborah LynnSteinberg; Chapter 13 The Last Temptation of Marion Woodman, David L.Clark;

Stuart J. Murray is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Ryerson University, Canada. Dave Holmes is a Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa, Canada.