Leaky Bodies and Boundaries by Margrit Shildrick

Leaky Bodies and Boundaries by Margrit Shildrick

A feminist investigation into the human body - drawing on postmodernist analyses, Margrit Shildrick addresses currently popular issues of self-identification, bioethics and new reproductive technologies.

'Sheldrick takes no intellectual prisoners.. the implications of her thesis for medical practice and bioethics are profound.' - Professor Christopher Dowrick, British Medical Journal

'There are I think two features of Shildrick's analysis which mark it out from others which may, on the surface, seem similar. The first is that the book is written in a highly accessible style, no small achievement given the complexity of the issues addressed and the notoriously difficult style of some of the theories covered ... the second is its focus on biomedical ethics. It is the thoroughness and the manner in which Shildrick brings her thesis about leaky bodies to bear on biomedical ethics that signals its originality ... it makes a valuable and important contribution to the fields of biomedical and sexual ethics.' - Women's Philosophy Review No.19 Autumn 1998

Margrit Shildrick, formerly Convenor and Lecturer in Women’s Studies at the University of Leeds, is now an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool.

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ISBN 13	9780415146173
ISBN 10	0415146178
Title	Leaky Bodies and Boundaries
Author	Margrit Shildrick
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	1997-06-19
Number of pages	262
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