Titlebook: Ethics, Moral Life and the Body; Sociological Perspec Rhonda M. Shaw Book 2015 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015 Sociolo

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Overview: Shaw addresses the ‘ethical turn‘ in contemporary sociological thinking, by exploring the contribution of sociology and the social sciences to bioethical debates about morality and tissue exchange practices.978-1-137-31259-4

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George Younger, January 1986-July 1989,I examine the distinctive contribution to be made by social scientists to this interdisciplinary discussion. A sociological contribution to the topic of ethics and morality can be mapped by examining the meanings of these terms, and the ways in which they circulate in different cultural contexts and

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Protection Companies and Invasion Scares,ality, and public discourses about specific ethical issues, affect lay understandings and perceptions of moral life. One way of gaining insight into this subject is to present people with hypothetical scenarios, asking them to think through an ethical issue (for example, see Edwards 1999), or retros

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Defending Copernicus and Galileo conveniently forgets the legacies of even the most well-known of its founding thinkers. Not only are all social practices and strategies imbued with ethical and moral import, the sources of the sociological imagination, as Robert Nisbet (1980: 180) pointed out many years ago, are never ‘divested of

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Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussiajurisdictions where the sale of body tissue and organs is illegal. In the social sciences and bioethics, however, it has been subject to scrutiny over the course of the last two decades (Fox and Swazey 1992; Gerrand 1994; Healy 2006; Shaw 2008a; Siminoff and Chillag 1999; Tutton 2002, 2004). As Wald

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403981363thin sociology. Sociological study of human reproduction initially gained momentum in the 1970s, with the rise of women’s health movements (see Davis 2007) and the concomitant critique of patriarchal medicine and the medicalisation of women’s bodies by feminist scholars. A major focus of feminist sc

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,An Uneasy Status Quo, 1932–1960,ction to be discreet when they do so, she foregrounds an issue that feminist analysts have long lamented — the invisibility of women’s unpaid work. As Stearns remarks, ‘breastfeeding is work; work that is not shared and work that is rendered invisible by the way it is required to be hidden’ (1999: 3

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