Bioethics and women : across the life span / Mary Briody Mahowald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mahowald, Mary Briody, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Bioethics.

Feminism--Moral and ethical aspects.

Feminism.

Women--Health and hygiene.

Women.

Bioethical Issues.

Women's Health.

Ethics, Medical.

Medical Subjects:

Bioethical Issues.

Women's Health.

Feminism.

Ethics, Medical.

Bioethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages)

Other Title:

Across the life span

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mahowald deals with bioethical issues relevant to women across their life span. Gender justice is both the starting point and the end point of her egalitarian perspective. Implications of different positions on moral status are considered with regard to ethical decisions after birth as well as before birth.

Contents:

Introduction

pt. 1. A bioethics for women

1. An egalitarian overview

Diverse approaches to bioethics

Verities, variables, and maxims

Conceptions of justice

Standpoint theory and its implications for just caring

Privileging women's standpoint in our health care

2. Distinguishing features of women's health care

Some sex and gender differences

Models of the practitioner-patient relationship

Possible modifications of principlist and casuistic methods

Who is the patient?

Patients and "dependent moral status"

Guidelines and regulations

3. Different starting points, standpoints, end points

Key terms

Meaning and significance of moral status

Moral relevance of the gestational tie and other relationships

Personhood and potential for personhood

Thresholds of development and moral status

Intermediate positions about moral status.

pt. 2. Topics, issues, and cases

4. Preconception and prenatal decisions

Preconception counseling

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis

Prenatal testing

Misattributed paternity and carrier testing

Sex selection

5. Medically assisted reproduction

Criteria for patient selection

Gamete "donation" and "surrogacy"

Disposition of in vitro embryos

Multiple gestations

6. Noncompliance during pregnancy

Refusal of hospitalization

Dietary noncompliance

Refusal of cesarean section

7. Decisions at parturition and birth

Mode of delivery

Cesarean sections for nonmedical reasons

Decisions for impaired or very premature newborns

Sex assignment at birth

8. Treatment of minors

Teenage pregnancy and motherhood

Confidentiality issues

Ritual female genital surgery

Eating disorders

9. Preventing pregnancy and birth

Contraception and sterilization

Abortion.

10. Violence and discrimination toward women and children

Child abuse and neglect

Elderly abuse and neglect

Violence against women

Gender discrimination and sexual harassment

11. Nonreproductive health issues

HIV testing and AIDS

Breast and gynecological cancers

Menopause and hormone replacement therapy

12. Care of the elderly and end-of-life care

Health-related issues

Caregiver issues

End-of-life decisions

13. Research issues

Women as research subjects

Maternal-fetal surgery

Cloning and stem cell research

pt. 3. An egalitarian ideal

14. Virtue and gender justice in health care

Recapping the perspective

Obligations, virtues, and ideals

Individual decision-making and an egalitarian ideal

Virtue in women's health care

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-265) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-029193-1

1-280-56438-5

9786610564385

0-19-972109-2

1-4356-1835-1

OCLC:

190822599