Call for Papers 'Responsibility in Biomedical Practices'Special Themed Issue of Medicine Studies (Autumn/Winter 2011)

摘要

Silke Schicktanz (University of Goettingen, Medical Ethics and History of Medicine) & Aviad Raz (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Sociology and Anthropology)Recent developments in medicine open new possibilities for planning and shaping life. At the same time, this scope of new options and interventions also involves new forms and spheres of responsibility, not only on the part of medical professionals, but also among patients, their families and their social surroundings and even for society in general. This development of responsibility in the context of biomedical practices has to be explored in an interdisciplinary perspective.