| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 151 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge annals of bioethics ; 11 |
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Routledge annals of bioethics ; 11.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Medical ethics.
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Sex factors in disease.
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Health -- Sex differences
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Sex Factors
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Ethics, Medical
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MEDICAL -- Ethics.
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Health -- Sex differences
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Medical ethics
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Sex factors in disease
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011040736 |
| ISBN |
9781136339073 |
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1136339078 |
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9780203123423 |
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0203123425 |
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661395523X |
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9786613955234 |
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1283642735 |
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9781283642736 |
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