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What Would You Do?: Juggling Bioethics and Ethnography | 
| Author: Charles L. Bosk
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 364428
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 0226066770
Dewey Decimal Number: 174.957
EAN: 9780226066776
ASIN: 0226066770
Publication Date: December 1, 2008
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DIVIn hospital rooms across the country, doctors, nurses, patients, and their families grapple with questions of life and death. Recently, they have been joined at the bedside by a new group of professional experts, bioethicists, whose presence raises a host of urgent questions. How has bioethics evolved into a legitimate specialty? When is such expertise necessary? How do bioethicists make their decisions? And whose interests do they serve?BRBRRenowned sociologist Charles L. Bosk has been observing medical care for thirty-five years. In IWhat Would You Do?/I he brings his extensive experience to bear on these questions while reflecting on the ethical dilemmas that his own ethnographic research among surgeons and genetic counselors has provoked. Bosk considers whether the consent given to ethnographers by their subjects can ever be fully voluntary and informed. He questions whether promises of confidentiality and anonymity can or should be made. And he wonders if social scientists overestimate the benefits of their work while downplaying the risks.BRBRVital for practitioners of both the newly prominent field of bioethics and the long-established craft of ethnography, IWhat Would You Do?/I will also engross anyone concerned with how our society addresses difficult health care issues./DIV
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