Feminism & bioethics : beyond reproduction / edited by Susan M. Wolf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wolf, Susan M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Feminist ethics.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Feminism and bioethics

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bioethics tackles the most vexing problems in health care and the biological sciences: from reproductive technologies to euthanasia, the AIDS epidemic, mapping the human genome, human subjects research, and health care reform. Yet surprisingly little attention has been paid to the special problems faced by women and to feminist analyses of current health care issues other than reproduction. This breakthrough volume of original essays authored by leading figures in bioethics and feminist theory moves beyond the areas of reproduction and nursing, taking bioethics into new territory. The book starts with an investigation of the relationship between feminism and bioethics and introduces different approaches to the problem. These chapters stress the importance of liberal feminism that prefers feminist over feminine analysis, integrates the experience of women of color, draws from the women's self-help movement, and uses the feminist stand-point theory.; In the second part of the book, the authors apply the feminist perspective to different bioethics problems: euthanasia, AIDS, the definition of health, doctor-patient communication, the Human Genome Project, the conduct of biomedical research, and health care reform. They demonstrate the gain and benefit that results when bioethics pays attention to gender and feminism. This volume will change the way bioethicists, students, patients, and the public think about these profoundly challenging problems.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

CONTRIBUTORS

Introduction: Gender and Feminism in Bioethics

I: The Relationship of Feminism and Bioethics

1. Feminism and Bioethics

2. Feminist Approaches to Bioethics

3. On Treatment of Myopia: Feminist Standpoint Theory and Bioethics

4. Reconstructing the Patient: Starting with Women of Color

5. What Bioethics Can Learn from the Women's Health Movement

II: Feminist Perspectives on Specific Problems in Bioethics

6. A Feminist View of Health

7. Communicative Ethics in Medicine: The Physician-Patient Relationship

8. Ethical Obstacles to the Participation of Women in Biomedical Research

9. Women as Vessels and Vectors: Lessons from the HIV Epidemic

10. Gender, Feminism, and Death: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

11. Feminism, Bioethics, and Genetics

12. Justice in the Allocation of Health Care Resources: A Feminist Account

INDEX

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-52796-X

9786610527960

0-19-975967-7

1-4294-1554-1

OCLC:

251537658