Publisher's Synopsis
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
