Contesting Moralities Science, Identity, Conflict

ISBN-13: 9781138405196 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Redclift, Nannekke

Opis

Questions of public and private morality, values and choices have become important areas of collective discussion. A key feature of this book is that it takes an ethnographic rather than a philosophical or speculative approach to moral debates.

Spis treści

Part 1 - Moral Rhetoric; Trauma, Guilt assujetetissement; War, space and the legitimacy of violence in Eritrea; Violent Moralities; Truth and Change: moral discourse among Protestants and Catholics in the Netherlands; Part 2 - Moral Exchange; The Importance of sameness; Configuring the moral in breast cancer genetics: the threat and promise of patented gene; Morality, risk and informed consent; Ethics as practice: the erpistemci and normative in implementing predictive genetic thinking; Part 3 - Moral Boundaries; Immoral pathways to citizenship; Contested knowledge, conflicting morality; Bread is first before everything; Held to account: dilemmas of responsibility and reproduction in Contemporary Britain; Moralities in Conflict

O autorze

Nannekke Redclift