| Description |
xxii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1. An Egalitarian Overview -- 2. Sex-Roles and Stereotypes in Health Care -- 3. Obstetrics and Gynecology: A Unique Specialty -- 4. Abortion: Complexity and Conflict -- 5. Fertility Curtailment: Selected Issues -- 6. Fertility Enhancement and the Right to Have a Baby -- 7. In Vitro Development and Childbirth -- 8. Coercive Treatment After Fetal Viability -- 9. Fetal Tissue Transplantation -- A Slippery Slope? -- 10. Decisions Regarding Disabled Newborns -- 11. Children and Moral Agency -- 12. Gender Socialization and Adolescents -- 13. The Feminization of Poverty: Its Impact on Women's and Children's Health -- 14. The "Family" and Health Care -- 15. Just Caring: Power for Empowerment |
| Summary |
Although women and children comprise the majority of health caregivers and patients, they often do not receive equal treatment. This book addresses that discrepancy by focusing on health care issues that particularly affect women and children. Topics considered include gender stereotypes in medicine and in adolescent socialization, fertility curtailment and enhancement, coercive treatment during pregnancy, fetal tissue transplantation, decisions regarding newborns, decision-making by minors, the feminization of poverty and its impact on women's and children's health, and the meaning and role of "family" in health care decisions. Women and Children in Health Care examines these topics, often using actual cases to develop the analysis. The author describes a care-based model of reasoning while warning of its possible use as a rationale for exploitation of women in the context of health care. Different versions of feminism are explained and applied to different issues, with the author advocating an egalitarian perspective that involves the use of one's power to empower others. Health care approaches that affect the lives of women and children are some of the most controversial yet genuinely humanitarian issues facing society today. Because of the timeliness of the topics covered and the depth of detail, this book is necessary reading for all those interested in bioethics, health care, women, and children |
| Analysis |
Children Health services |
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United States |
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Women Health services |
| Notes |
CA copy is first paperback ed, 1996 |
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MMC copy is first paperback ed. 1996 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Child health services -- Political aspects.
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Child health services.
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Social medicine.
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Women's health services -- Political aspects.
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Women's health services.
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Women's Health Services.
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Child Health Services.
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Socioeconomic Factors.
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Sociology, Medical.
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Women's Health Services.
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| LC no. |
92012912 |
| ISBN |
0195063465 (alk. paper) |
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0195108701 (paperback) |
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