Embodying Bioethics

Recent Feminist Advances

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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In this important book, a distinguished group of feminist scholars and activists discuss crucial bioethics topics in a feminist light. Among the subjects explored are the care/justice debates, transforming bioethics, practice, and reproduction. The book also covers less commonly discussed issues, such as culturally appropriate responses to reproductive health problems in developing countries.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1999-01-14
Mått149 x 227 x 17 mm
Vikt381 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Feminist Perspectives
Antal sidor296
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780847689255

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Genusvetenskap inom Samhalle och politik
Biovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Medicinsk etik och läkaretik inom Medicin

Anne Donchin is associate professor of philosophy and former director of Women's Studies at Indiana University, Indianapolis. She is the author of The Birthing Industry: A Feminist Critique.Laura M. Purdy is professor of philosophy, University of Toronto and bioethicist, Toronto Hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital, Ontario Cancer Institute and Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. Among her publications are Reproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist Bioethics and Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics (with Helen Bequeart Holmes).

Part 1 IntroductionPart 2 I: Redirecting Bioethical TheoryChapter 3 1 Rehabilitating CareChapter 4 2 Just Caring About Maternal-Fetal Relations: The Case of Cocaine Using Pregnant WomenChapter 5 3 Demarginalization: An Imperative for Feminist BioethicsChapter 6 4 Erasing Difference: Race, Ethnicity and Gender in BioethicsPart 7 II: Reproduction and BeyondChapter 8 5 Abortion, Chernobyl and Unanswered Genetic QuestionsChapter 9 6 Do Lesbians Make Infertile Couples?: Anti-Lesbian Discrimination in Assisted ReproductionChapter 10 7 Equality, Autonomy and Feminist BioethicsChapter 11 8 Health Commodification and the Body Politic in Contemporary China: The Example of Female InfertilityChapter 12 9 Feminism and Elective Fetal ReproductionChapter 13 10 On Not Iterating Women's Disability: A Crossover Perspective on Genetic DilemmasChapter 14 11 Menopause: Is this a Disease and Should We Treat It?Part 15 III: Working For ChangeChapter 16 12 Culture and Reproductive Health: Challenges for Feminist PhilanthropyChapter 17 13 Strategies for Effective TransformationChapter 18 14 Women and Health Research: From Theory to Practice to PolicyPart 19 IndexPart 20 About the Editors and Contributors