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Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics (2011)

Holloway, Karla F. C. (Author)

Duke University Press
Publication date: 2011
Language: English

ISBN: 9780822348948

Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: xxiii + 225 pp.; bibl.; index

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African Americans and science Medicine and ethics Human experimentation Tuskegee Syphilis Study Public health Medicine and law Privacy Medicine and gender Biology and ethics; bioethics Medicine and race Euthanasia African Americans Social class 21st century 20th century United States

In Private Bodies, Public Texts, Karla F.C. Holloway examines instances where medical issues and information that would usually be seen as intimate, private matters are forced into the public sphere. As she demonstrates, the resulting social dramas often play out on the bodies of women and African Americans. Holloway discusses the spectacle of the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case and the injustice of medical researchers' use of Henrietta Lacks's cell line without her or her family's knowledge or permission. She offers a provocative reading of the Tuskegee syphilis study and a haunting account of the ethical dilemmas that confronted physicians, patients, and families when a hospital became a space for dying rather than healing during Hurricane Katrina; even at that dire moment, race mattered. Private Bodies, Public Texts is a compelling call for a cultural bioethics that attends to the historical and social factors that render some populations more vulnerable than others in medical and legal contexts. Holloway proposes literature as a conceptual anchor for discussions of race, gender, bioethics, and the right to privacy. Literary narratives can accommodate thick description, multiple subjectivities, contradiction, and complexity.

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Review Mawdsley, Stephen (2013) Review of "Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine (pp. 226-227). unapi

Review Darling, Marsha J. Tyson (2013) Review of "Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics". Social History of Medicine (pp. 306-307). unapi

Essay Review Jenkins, Stephanie (2012) [Essay review]. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (pp. 760-763). unapi

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