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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450834703321

Titolo

Contesting moralities : science, identity, conflict / / edited by Nanneke Redclift

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : UCL Press

Portland, Or. : , : Cavendish Pub., , 2005

ISBN

1-135-39342-7

1-135-39341-9

1-282-37660-8

9786612376603

1-84314-772-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RedcliftNanneke

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Ethics

Ethical relativism

Ethical problems - Social aspects

Social conflict

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Amoral" biotechnology and a Norwegian moral domain / Sara Skodbo -- Community, the commons and commerce : the  ownership of BRCA genes and genetic testing / Sahra Gibbon -- Morality, risk and informed consent in clinical drug trials / Oonagh Corrigan -- Ethics as pastoral practice : implementing predictive genetic testing in the medical genetics clinic / Carlos Novas -- Respectability, risk and sexual practices : HIV/AIDS in Puebla, Mexico / Sara Corben de Romero -- "Bread is first before everything!" : moral economy in households and states / Kathryn Tomlinson -- "Truth" and change : moral discourse among Protestants and Catholics in the Netherlands / Tony Watling -- Moralities in conflict : ambiguities of identity and social control for Filipina domestic helpers in Malaysia / Michelle Lee Guy -- The migratory meaning of terror : moral conversations from "other"



Americas / Nanneke Redclift -- Trauma, guilt and assujettissement : discourses of morality and race in Carib historical consciousness / Paul Twinn -- War, space and the legitimacy of violence in Eritrea / Michael Mahrt.

Sommario/riassunto

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. This study examines the contemporary explosion of ethical discourse in the public domain and the growing importance of moral rhetoric as an aspect of social relations.