Health, Illness and Medical Bioethics

Abstract

"The study of medical bioethics and ethnomedicine has been a focus of increasing study in the West over the last two decades, and has highlighted, among other things, the diversity of bioethical frameworks. An anthropology of medical bioethics (Casper & Koenig 1996; Inhorn 2003; Turner 2003; Marshall 1992, 1994, 1998; Marshall & Koenig 1996; Das 1999; Brodwin 2001; Gold 2003; Unschuld 1979; Muller & Desmond 1992; Pellegrino, Mazzarella & Corsi 1992; Shrewder 1990; Kaufert & O’ Neil 1990; Muller 1994) has revealed not only the diversity of non-western medical systems but also how ethical concerns are constituted in their medical approaches. "