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Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care
Published on: February 16, 2011
Disability, bioethics, and rejected knowledge
1Medical Education Unit, School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 73, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia. Christopher.Newell@utas.edu.au
Abstract:
In this article I explore disability as far more than individual private tragedy, suggesting it has a social location and reproduction. Within this context we look at the power relations associated with bioethics and its largely uncritical use of the biomedical model. Within that context the topics of genetics, euthanasia, and biotechnology are explored. In examining these topics a social account of disability is proposed as rejected knowledge. Accordingly we explore the political nature of bioethics as a project.
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