Seeking Medicine’s Moral Centre: Ethics, Bioethics, and Assisted DyingFor the first time in two millennia, the Hippocratic ethic of medical care has been supplanted by a new bioethics. The bottom-up set of injunctions to care, of the patient and for society, ha been replaced by a top-down, commercial ethic focused on patient autonomy in a limited system of medical care.
To understand this transformation, and its the effect, Seeking Medicine’s Moral Centre focuses on the issue of “medical aid in dying,” (MAiD) in Canada. Uniquely, it introduces ethnography as a tool to parse a set of academic and public articles reflecting the changing face of medical ethics from 1996 to the present. In doing so it joins the professional and the popular as a single dataset.
It is the first book to seriously critique bioethics as a medical ethic through its focus on medical aid in dying as a still contested program in care of the chronically ill and fragile.
Key audiences include journalists, medical anthropologists and sociologists; ethicists and bioethicists; medical and scientific researchers and policy makers. |
Contents
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A New Perspective on the Euthanasia Debate | 19 |
A Retrospective Analysis | 37 |
Lessons for Bioethics Time to Redefine the Ethical Principles of Care for Restricted People | 46 |
The Carter Case | 54 |
Chapter 6 End of Life Often Means Ending Life | 58 |
Chapter 7 Living Versus Dying with Dignity | 62 |
Chapter 8 Old Age Alone Shouldnt Be Considered a Justification for PhysicianAssisted Death | 66 |
Chapter 16 Were Polio to Return Today | 131 |
Chapter 17 Disabling Disability Amid Competing Ideologies | 134 |
Medical Ethics | 148 |
Chapter 18 Does the Sanctity of Human Life Doctrine Sanctify Humanness or Life? | 149 |
The Poacher Becomes Gamekeeper | 155 |
Chapter 20 Bioethics? A Grand Idea | 172 |
Blog Notes on DoctorPatient Relationships | 175 |
Redefining the Basis of Treatment in Ethics and Law | 188 |
Chapter 9 The Right to a Compassionately Assisted Life not Death | 70 |
Chapter 10 Although its Legal Assisted Dying Must Still Involve Ethical Consideration | 74 |
Canadas Five Years Experience with MAiD Medical Termination | 77 |
What Difference does Difference Make? | 94 |
Whats So Great About Intelligence? | 95 |
Chapter 13 Disabled are not Dogs | 101 |
Chapter 14 Disability or End of Life? Competing Narratives in Bioethics | 107 |
The Ethics of Difference | 116 |
Euthanasia and the Religious View | 207 |
Cults Sects and Strangeness | 220 |
A Genealogy | 235 |
Discussion | 250 |
Chapter 26 Toward an Anthropology of Medical Ethics | 251 |
Bibliography | 291 |
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