Böcker av Hilde Lindemann Nelson

Patient in the Family examines the tensions between the two systems devoted to caring for people's deepest vulnerabilities, the health care system and the institution of the family and suggests how they could work better together.

The question of how societies respond to our bodies' ills is one which has had tremendous hold on contemporary imaginations. This reader includes selections by the best thinkers in the ethics of health care, bioethics and philosophy of health care.

Hilde Lindemann Nelson focuses on the stories of groups of people-including Gypsies, mothers, nurses, and transsexuals-whose identities have been defined by those with the power to speak for them and to constrain the scope of their actions. By placing...