The View From Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences

by Raymond G. DeVries (editor), Leigh Turner (Editor), Kristina Orfali (Editor)

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 systemsQuestions why some bioethical issues fail to attract the attention of bioethicistsInvestigates the effect of the rise of bioethics in the field of medical sociologyAn 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

232 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 29, 2007