Embodying Bioethics: Recent Feminist Advances (New Feminist Perspectives)

by Anne Donchin (Editor), LauraM.Purdy (Editor)

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1999
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Medical issues affecting health care have become everyday media events. In response to mounting public concern, growing numbers of bioethicists are being appointed to medical school faculties and public policy panels. However the ideas voiced in these forums are seldom informed by feminist perspectives. In this important book, a distinguished group of feminist scholars and activists discuss crucial bioethics topics in a feminist light. Among the subjects explored are the care/justice debates, transforming bioethics, practice, and reproduction. The book also covers less commonly discussed issues, such as culturally appropriate responses to reproductive health problems in developing countries.

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Medical issues affecting health care have become everyday media events. In response to mounting public concern, growing numbers of bioethicists are being appointed to medical school faculties and public policy panels. However the ideas voiced in these forums are seldom informed by feminist perspectives. In this important book, a distinguished group of feminist scholars and activists discuss crucial bioethics topics in a feminist light. Among the subjects explored are the care/justice debates, transforming bioethics, practice, and reproduction. The book also covers less commonly discussed issues, such as culturally appropriate responses to reproductive health problems in developing countries.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 28 Jan 1999
ISBN 10: 0847689255
ISBN 13: 9780847689255

Media Reviews

A welcome resource for teaching and discussing tough issues with trustworthy help. * Waterwheel *
Right from the start the book gives the reader fresh insights. The depth of analysis of issues already much discussed stimulates new questions. Other issues that have been less considered are addressed in thorough and thought-provoking ways. Many of the authors not only present their analysis clearly but also force the reader-as the authors force themselves-to wonder if an analysis or political strategy is effective, so that these writings meet the highest standards of scholarship. Anyone interested in feminist bioethics will want it on her, or his, shelf. * Religious Studies Review *
This volume contributes to an understanding of expanding feminist approaches, which are not only setting out an agenda for social change but are moving to undergird this agenda with vital, well-supported arguments. * Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy *
This book is very successful. Overall the individual contributions move the conversation forward, either interjecting a feminist voice into a specific topic or highlighting less visible facets of a debate. I doubt that this book will collect dust on my shelves. * Philosophy in Review *
Well-written. Medical ethics professionals and advanced students should read this book, and libraries serving medical ethics courses should have it. -- M. LaBar, Southern Wesleyan University * CHOICE, September 1999 *

Author Bio

Anne Donchin is associate professor of philosophy and former director of Women's Studies at Indiana University, Indianapolis. She is the author of The Birthing Industry: A Feminist Critique. Laura M. Purdy is professor of philosophy, University of Toronto and bioethicist, Toronto Hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital, Ontario Cancer Institute and Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. Among her publications are Reproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist Bioethics and Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics (with Helen Bequeart Holmes).