Böcker av Dave Holmes

A comprehensive exploration of contested psychiatric practices in healthcare settings, this interdisciplinary volume brings together recent scholarship from the US, Canada, the UK, Europe and Australia, to provide a rich array of theoretical tools with which to engage with questions related to psychiatric power, discipline and control.

Argues that traditional modes of bioethics are proving incommensurable with biotechnologies and consequently, emerging subjectivities. Presenting a wide variety of related disciplinary concerns and perspectives on bioethics, this title challenges the underlying assumptions that continue to hold sway in the ethics of medicine and health sciences.