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Race, Gender, and a
Cultural Bioethics
Karla Holloway
“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
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. 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. Holloway advocates an ethics that acknowledges that professional cultures produce their subjects.
Duke University Press
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