The ethics of gender-specific disease / Mary Ann G. Cutter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cutter, Mary Ann Gardell, author.

Series:

Routledge Annals of Bioethics

Routledge annals of bioethics ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical ethics.

Sex factors in disease.

Health--Sex differences.

Health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Our understanding of gender carries significant bioethical implications. An errant account of gender-specific disease can lead to overgeneralizations, undergeneralizations, and misdiagnoses. It can also lead to problems in the structure of health-care delivery, the creation of policy, and the development of clinical curricula. In this volume, Cutter argues that gender-specific disease and related bioethical discourses are philosophically integrative. Gender-specific disease is integrative because the descriptive roles of gender, disease, and their relation are inextricably tie

Contents:

Background

Gender-specific disease: descriptive analysis

Gender-specific disease: prescriptive analysis

Gender-specific disease: contextual analysis

An integrative approach to gender-specific disease

Rethinking gender-specific disease nomenclature and taxonomies

Toward an integrative bioethics

Integrative bioethics and assessing gender-specific disease

Implications for health care for men, children, and members of the lgbt communities

Some lessons and challenges

Concluding reflections.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-33906-X

1-283-64273-5

0-203-12342-5

1-136-33907-8

9780203123423

OCLC:

813843940