Description |
xvii, 398 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Introduction: Gender and Feminism in Bioethics / Susan M. Wolf -- 1. Feminism and Bioethics / Susan Sherwin -- 2. Feminist Approaches to Bioethics / Rosemarie Tong -- 3. On Treatment of Myopia: Feminist Standpoint Theory and Bioethics / Mary B. Mahowald -- 4. Reconstructing the Patient: Starting with Women of Color / Dorothy E. Roberts -- 5. What Bioethics Can Learn from the Women's Health Movement / Rebecca Dresser -- 6. A Feminist View of Health / Laura M. Purdy -- 7. Communicative Ethics in Medicine: The Physician-Patient Relationship / Janet Farrell Smith -- 8. Ethical Obstacles to the Participation of Women in Biomedical Research / Vanessa Merton -- 9. Women as Vessels and Vectors: Lessons from the HIV Epidemic / Ruth Faden, Nancy Kass and Deven McGraw -- 10. Gender, Feminism, and Death: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia / Susan M. Wolf -- 11. Feminism, Bioethics, and Genetics / Adrienne Asch and Gail Geller |
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12. Justice in the Allocation of Health Care Resources: A Feminist Account / Hilde Lindemann Nelson and James Lindemann Nelson |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Bioethics.
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Feminism.
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Feminist ethics.
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Medical ethics.
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Women's rights.
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Bioethics.
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Women's Rights.
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Bioethics.
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Women's Rights.
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Author |
Wolf, Susan M.
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LC no. |
94028186 |
ISBN |
019508568X (acid-free paper) |
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0195095561 (paperback) |
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