Holloway’s work stands as a compelling case for why humanities research that is attentive to cultural constructions of gender and race is crucial to real-world applications of legal or bioethical analysis.” - On Campus with Women “ powerful meditation on how narratives of identity frame and focus how we understand the ethics of birth, life, and death. Holloway is a master narrative interpreter and storyteller.” - Carla Lam, International Feminist Journal of Politics “ Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics is a multi-layered meditation on the field of bioethics, using historical and contemporary case studies from the US.… A mark of the uniqueness of the book is its wide-ranging, artful and diversely sourced writing…. Literary narratives can accommodate thick description, multiple subjectivities, contradiction, and complexity. Holloway proposes literature as a conceptual anchor for discussions of race, gender, bioethics, and the right to privacy. Private Bodies, Public Texts is a compelling call for a cultural bioethics that attends to the historical and social factors that render some populations more vulnerable than others in medical and legal contexts. She offers a provocative reading of the Tuskegee syphilis study and a haunting account of the ethical dilemmas that confronted physicians, patients, and families when a hospital became a space for dying rather than healing during Hurricane Katrina even at that dire moment, race mattered. Holloway discusses the spectacle of the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case and the injustice of medical researchers’ use of Henrietta Lacks’s cell line without her or her family’s knowledge or permission. As she demonstrates, the resulting social dramas often play out on the bodies of women and African Americans. In Private Bodies, Public Texts, Karla FC Holloway examines instances where medical issues and information that would usually be seen as intimate, private matters are forced into the public sphere. Labor and Working-Class History Association.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.Author Resources from University Presses.Journals fulfilled by DUP Journal Services.
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