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Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics de Karla F. C. Holloway

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

Autor Karla F. C. Holloway
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2011

Această monografie de cercetare semnată de Karla F. C. Holloway propune o reevaluare critică a bioeticii contemporane, mutând accentul de la protocoalele medicale și juridice spre complexitatea culturală a experienței umane. Observăm cum autoarea investighează acele corpuri care sunt făcute „hiper-vizibile” în sfera publică — în special ale femeilor și ale comunității afro-americane — în timp ce identitatea și subiectivitatea lor rămân adesea ignorate de discursul instituțional. Remarcăm o structură analitică ce nu se limitează la studiul de caz juridic, ci integrează literatura ca instrument de cunoaștere.

Prin capitole precum „Bloodchild” sau „Cartographies of Desire”, Private Bodies, Public Texts demonstrează că ficțiunea poate surprinde nuanțe istorice pe care medicina le omite. Comparabil cu Bodies in a Broken World de Ann Folwell Stanford în rigurozitatea cu care leagă sănătatea personală de dreptatea socială, volumul de față se distinge prin utilizarea metodologică a naratologiei pentru a deconstrui practicile bioetice. Dacă în lucrările sale de ficțiune, precum A Death in Harlem, autoarea explora estetica și misterul perioadei Harlem Renaissance, aici ea folosește aceleași lentile culturale pentru a analiza teme stringente precum testarea ADN și etica reproducerii. Reținem argumentul central al lucrării: bioetica trebuie să fie, înainte de toate, o anchetă culturală care să recunoască faptul că profesiile medicale și legale își „produc” subiecții prin limbajul și practicile lor. Este o lectură densă, teoretică, ce navighează cu precizie între științele sociale și umanioare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822349174
ISBN-10: 0822349175
Pagini: 225
Dimensiuni: 145 x 206 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

De ce să citești această carte

Această lucrare este esențială pentru studenții și cercetătorii din domeniul bioeticii, sociologiei medicale și studiilor de gen. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care rasa și genul influențează tratamentul medical și reprezentarea juridică. Este o recomandare solidă pentru cei care doresc să înțeleagă de ce medicina nu poate fi separată de contextul cultural și cum literatura poate servi drept ghid etic în fața progresului tehnologic.

Despre autor

Karla F. C. Holloway este profesor emerit „William R. Kenan Jr.” de engleză și literatură afro-americană la Duke University, unde a condus și departamentul de Studii Afro-Americane. Cariera sa academică este marcată de o interdisciplinaritate remarcabilă, îmbinând critica literară cu etica medicală și dreptul. Pe lângă contribuțiile sale academice fundamentale în domeniul bioeticii culturale, Holloway este o romancieră recunoscută, publicând lucrări precum Gone Missing in Harlem, unde explorează reziliența familiilor de culoare în secolul XX, reflectând aceleași preocupări pentru identitate și istorie prezente în studiile sale teoretice.

Descriere scurtă

In Private Bodies, Public Texts, Karla FC Holloway reflects on those bodies made hyper-visible as private medical matters are thrust into the public sphere, and on that which is rendered invisible or not knowable by the professional cultures of law and medicine. Maintaining that the bodies of women and African Americans are accorded less privacy than those of white men, Holloway considers the intersection of medicine, law, ethics, race, and gender in reproductive medicine, genomics and DNA testing, the conduct of clinical trials, and death and dying. She looks at these issues in light of literary texts such as Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild, Margaret Edson’s play Wit, and Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson before Dying, highlighting the capacity of literature to grasp cultural and historical complexities elided by law and medicine. Holloway contends that bioethics is always a cultural inquiry. Ultimately, in Private Bodies, Public Texts she argues for a cultural ethics that recognizes cultural complexity as the origin of subjectivity. Such an ethics would involve reflexive analysis of the discourses and practices that constitute the medical and legal professions. It would also entail accountability for which subjects particular professional cultures construct or bring into view and which they obscure. Holloway advocates an ethics that acknowledges that professional cultures produce their subjects.

Cuprins

Contents; Preface; AcknowledgmentsIntroduction - The Law of The Body; Chapter 1 - Bloodchild; Chapter 2 - Cartographies of Desire; Chapter 3 - Who’s Got the Body?; Chapter 4 - Immortality In CulturesNotes; Bibliography; Index

Recenzii

"Private Bodies, Public Texts is a creative and complicated call to do bioethics differently.... Holloway's encyclopedic collection of legal and bioethical cases, melded with captivating fiction and discriminating analyses, make this book nourishing sustenance for anyone who elieves that bioethics has a way to go in understanding not only that race and gender matter but also how they matter." Charlene Galarneau, Women's Review of Books, March 2012

“Karla FC Holloway has written an important book which challenges the objectification of patients’ stories which is so common in the practice of bioethics. She persuasively argues for a cultural ethics, an ethics which gives constitutive weight to the cultural context of those stories, especially the cultural contexts of race and gender identity. Using this approach, she presents crucial new insights into issues of reproduction, clinical trials, genomics, and death and dying. Her discussion of the events at Memorial Medical Center after Katrina will become a classic in the field. But most importantly, she shows us that the practice of bioethics must change if it is to successfully relate to the issues raised by the thick narratives of reality.” Baruch A. Brody, Baylor College of Medicine

“Private Bodies, Public Texts is an illuminating meditation on the social construction of personal identity, with special focus on gender and racial categorizations in biomedical ethics. Drawing on diverse sources from medicine, law, and literature, Karla FC Holloway shows how devalued gender and racial identities not only set the stage for past biomedical abuses but are ironically replicated in the paradigmatic examples that contemporary bioethics invokes in the supposed service of correcting those abuses. This is a subtle, challenging book.” Robert A. Burt, Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Law, Yale University

“Private Bodies, Public Texts is as powerful as it is beautifully written. Karla FC Holloway’s is a very different kind of bioethics, one that challenges us to think both more broadly and more specifically about what privacy and justice mean. And she reminds us, with sometimes piercing insight, just how critical gender and race can be in making meaning out of both.”--Ruth R. Faden, Director, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics


"Private Bodies, Public Texts is a creative and complicated call to do bioethics differently... Holloway's encyclopedic collection of legal and bioethical cases, melded with captivating fiction and discriminating analyses, make this book nourishing sustenance for anyone who elieves that bioethics has a way to go in understanding not only that race and gender matter but also how they matter." Charlene Galarneau, Women's Review of Books, March 2012 "Karla FC Holloway has written an important book which challenges the objectification of patients' stories which is so common in the practice of bioethics. She persuasively argues for a cultural ethics, an ethics which gives constitutive weight to the cultural context of those stories, especially the cultural contexts of race and gender identity. Using this approach, she presents crucial new insights into issues of reproduction, clinical trials, genomics, and death and dying. Her discussion of the events at Memorial Medical Center after Katrina will become a classic in the field. But most importantly, she shows us that the practice of bioethics must change if it is to successfully relate to the issues raised by the thick narratives of reality." Baruch A. Brody, Baylor College of Medicine "Private Bodies, Public Texts is an illuminating meditation on the social construction of personal identity, with special focus on gender and racial categorizations in biomedical ethics. Drawing on diverse sources from medicine, law, and literature, Karla FC Holloway shows how devalued gender and racial identities not only set the stage for past biomedical abuses but are ironically replicated in the paradigmatic examples that contemporary bioethics invokes in the supposed service of correcting those abuses. This is a subtle, challenging book." Robert A. Burt, Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Law, Yale University "Private Bodies, Public Texts is as powerful as it is beautifully written. Karla FC Holloway's is a very different kind of bioethics, one that challenges us to think both more broadly and more specifically about what privacy and justice mean. And she reminds us, with sometimes piercing insight, just how critical gender and race can be in making meaning out of both."--Ruth R. Faden, Director, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

Notă biografică

Karla FC Holloway is James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University, where she also holds appointments in the Law School, Women's Studies, and African & African American Studies, and is an affiliated faculty with the Institute on Care at the End of Life and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine. She serves on the Greenwall Foundation's Advisory Board in Bioethics, was recently elected to the Hastings Center Fellows Association, and is the author of many books, including "BookMarks: Reading in Black and White"; "Passed On: African American Mourning Stories: A Memorial," also published by Duke University Press; and "Codes of Conduct: Race, Ethics, and the Color of Our Character."

Descriere

How blacks and women have been mistreated by the American medical establishment