Whose Body Is It Anyway

Author : Cécile Fabre
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199289998

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Whose Body is it Anyway? by Cécile Fabre Pdf

In the prevailing liberal ethos, if there is one thing that is beyond the reach of others, it is our body in particular, and our person in general: our legal and political tradition is such that we have the right to deny others access to our person and body, even though doing so would harm those who need personal services from us, or body parts. However, we lack the right to use ourselves as we wish in order to raise income, even though we do not necessarily harm others by doingso---even though we might in fact benefit them by doing so.Cécile Fabre's aim in this book is to show that, according to the principles of distributive justice which inform most liberal democracies, both in practice and in theory, it should be exactly the other way around: that is, if it is true that we lack the right to withhold access to material resources from those who need them, we also lack the right to withhold access to our body from those who need it; but we do, under some circumstances, have the right to decide how to use it in orderto raise income. More specifically, she argues in favour of the confiscation of body parts and personal services, as well as of the commercialization of organs, sex, and reproductive capacities.

Author : Ian Wellard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317337577

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There is a widespread interest in wellbeing, the healthy body and public health. However, there are also many simplistic and uncritical interpretations of what wellbeing or a healthy body should ‘look like’. By focusing upon wellbeing through examples taken from fitness-related activities, which are often considered unproblematic routes to achieving wellbeing and greater public health, this book explores contemporary understandings of the body and the conflicting ways in which it is considered, in different contexts, times and spaces, either as the possession of the individual or that of society (or both). Whose Body Is It Anyway? adopts an embodied approach, employing sociological theory along with examples drawn from empirical research collected through participation (by the author) in an intense period of physical training. The intention is to explore the embodied experiences of ‘doing’ an intensive period of physical activity and, subsequently, attempt to understand, in more depth, the range of personal, social, psychological and physical factors that undoubtedly contribute to engaging in such an activity. The emerging story reveals much about the physical and emotional experience of a body being put through intensive exercise, not only in terms of contrasting forms of pleasure and pain, but also various socio-cultural ‘issues’ relating to relationships of power, trust and the role of ‘expert’ health advisor. Written in a clear and engaging style, the book provides an accessible introduction of more complex theoretical explanations which will appeal to academics and practitioners involved in broad aspects of sport, physical activity, health and wellbeing.

Author : Cécile Fabre
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191537318

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Whose Body is it Anyway? by Cécile Fabre Pdf

In the prevailing liberal ethos, if there is one thing that is beyond the reach of others, it is our body in particular, and our person in general: our legal and political tradition is such that we have the right to deny others access to our person and body, even though doing so would harm those who need personal services from us, or body parts. However, we lack the right to use ourselves as we wish in order to raise income, even though we do not necessarily harm others by doing so—-even though we might in fact benefit them by doing so. Cécile Fabre's aim in this book is to show that, according to the principles of distributive justice which inform most liberal democracies, both in practice and in theory, it should be exactly the other way around: that is, if it is true that we lack the right to withhold access to material resources from those who need them, we also lack the right to withhold access to our body from those who need it; but we do, under some circumstances, have the right to decide how to use it in order to raise income. More specifically, she argues in favour of the confiscation of body parts and personal services, as well as of the commercialization of organs, sex, and reproductive capacities.

Author : Atul Gawande
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781429972109

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Complications by Atul Gawande Pdf

A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. He also shows us what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause; a young woman with nausea that won't go away; a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. Gawande offers a richly detailed portrait of the people and the science, even as he tackles the paradoxes and imperfections inherent in caring for human lives. At once tough-minded and humane, Complications is a new kind of medical writing, nuanced and lucid, unafraid to confront the conflicts and uncertainties that lie at the heart of modern medicine, yet always alive to the possibilities of wisdom in this extraordinary endeavor. Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

Author : Ian Wellard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Body image
ISBN : 1138959510

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Whose Body is it Anyway? by Ian Wellard Pdf

Whose Body is it Anyway? explores contemporary understandings of the body and the conflicting ways in which it is considered in different contexts, either as the possession of the individual or that of society (or both). The volume adopts an embodied approach, employing sociological theory along with examples drawn from empirical research.

Author : Joann E. Hafer
Publisher : Booklocker.Com Incorporated
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1591133351

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Whose Body Is This Anyway? by Joann E. Hafer Pdf

JoAnn E. Hafer's book is a story of courage and determination in facing long odds. Addressing many questions dealing with cancer, it is directed to patients, their family and friends. Mostly, it's the story of hope when all seems lost.

Author : Carl Schneider
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Autonomy (Psychology)
ISBN : 0195113977

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The Practice of Autonomy by Carl Schneider Pdf

"Exploring what patients do want gives direction to the author's inquiry into what they should want. What patients want, he believes, is properly more complex and ambiguous than being "empowered." In this book he charts that ambiguity to take the autonomy principle past current pieties into the uncertain realities of the sick room and the hospital ward." "The Practice of Autonomy is a sympathetic but trenchant study of the animating principle of modern bioethics. It speaks with freshness, insight, and even passion to bioethicists and moral philosophers (about their theories), to lawyers (about their methods), to medical sociologists (about their subject), to policy-makers (about their ambitions), to doctors (about their work), and to patients (about their lives)."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Brian Clark
Publisher : Samuel French
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Drama in English, 1945- - Texts
ISBN : 0573015872

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Whose Life is it Anyway? by Brian Clark Pdf

Author : Anne Phillips
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400846368

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Our Bodies, Whose Property? by Anne Phillips Pdf

An argument against treating our bodies as commodities No one wants to be treated like an object, regarded as an item of property, or put up for sale. Yet many people frame personal autonomy in terms of self-ownership, representing themselves as property owners with the right to do as they wish with their bodies. Others do not use the language of property, but are similarly insistent on the rights of free individuals to decide for themselves whether to engage in commercial transactions for sex, reproduction, or organ sales. Drawing on analyses of rape, surrogacy, and markets in human organs, Our Bodies, Whose Property? challenges notions of freedom based on ownership of our bodies and argues against the normalization of markets in bodily services and parts. Anne Phillips explores the risks associated with metaphors of property and the reasons why the commodification of the body remains problematic. What, she asks, is wrong with thinking of oneself as the owner of one's body? What is wrong with making our bodies available for rent or sale? What, if anything, is the difference between markets in sex, reproduction, or human body parts, and the other markets we commonly applaud? Phillips contends that body markets occupy the outer edges of a continuum that is, in some way, a feature of all labor markets. But she also emphasizes that we all have bodies, and considers the implications of this otherwise banal fact for equality. Bodies remind us of shared vulnerability, alerting us to the common experience of living as embodied beings in the same world. Examining the complex issue of body exceptionalism, Our Bodies, Whose Property? demonstrates that treating the body as property makes human equality harder to comprehend.

Author : A. Roger Gobbel
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0804215804

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Helping Youth Interpret the Bible by A. Roger Gobbel Pdf

This dynamic appraoch to biblical study and interpretaion gives pastors, Christian educators, parents, and young people the tools with which to work together in sharing a new adventure in Christian faith. Helpign Youth Interpret the Bible gives young people the opportunity to be active participants in interpretaion as part of learning and living as Christians.

Author : Bryan V. Veal, BA, CADC, CDVC
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781637644829

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Whose Story is it Anyway? (Workbook) by Bryan V. Veal, BA, CADC, CDVC Pdf

Whose Story Is It Anyway? (Workbook) By: Bryan Veal Whose Story Is It Anyway? (Workbook) provides an opportunity for introspection and enables individuals to examine why they think and act the way they do, what stories they have been told, what stories they have made up that are controlling their lives. This workbook will provide the ability to create a new way of thinking, thus changing unwanted behaviors. You will see how you have been programmed to think a certain way by other people’s stories and society’s stories. If you feel stuck or have settled for where you are or convinced yourself that you are where you want to be, this workbook will help you move to a place that you REALLY want to be…unless you are that 1 percent of the world that is doing what they really want to do.

Author : E. Hurren
Publisher : Springer
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780230355651

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Dying for Victorian Medicine by E. Hurren Pdf

The first book to provide a detailed analysis of the body-trafficking networks of the dead poor that underpinned the expansion of medical education from Victorian times. With an even-handed approach to the business of anatomy, Hurren uses remarkable case histories which still echo a vibrant body-business on the internet today in a biomedical age.

Author : Roberta Louis Goodman
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0867050535

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Teaching about God and Spirituality by Roberta Louis Goodman Pdf

The ultimate source book on God spirituality and how to teach both.

Author : Joan Kenley,John C. Arpels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1557044600

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Whose Body Is It Anyway? by Joan Kenley,John C. Arpels Pdf

First time in paperback, an essential guide in an easy-to-read format with complete charts & diagrams to answer women's questions about health, fitness, & alternative & traditional treatment choices, including menopause concerns, sexual issues, heart disease, cancer, image & weight issues, skin care, & more.

Author : Christopher Pierson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191090790

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Just Property by Christopher Pierson Pdf

This third and concluding volume of Just Property brings critical accounts of property right up to the present. The book is made up of five pairs of chapters located in five major ideological traditions of modernity: liberalism, libertarianism, social democracy, conservatism, and feminism. As before, the focus is on particular thinkers and their daring, puzzling and sometimes outrageous views. The concluding chapter returns to the project's opening questions about property and inequality and about property under the imperative of growth to limits. If we are to confront the enormous challenges that loom in front of us, we have, above all else, to think again, and quite radically, about the place of property in our collective lives.