Embodying Bioethics: Recent Feminist Advances / Edition 1

by Anne Donchin, Laura M. Purdy, Françoise Baylis, Elisabeth Boetzkes, Alisa L. Carse

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847689255
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	01/14/1999
Series:	New Feminist Perspectives
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.86(w) x 8.94(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction Part 2 I: Redirecting Bioethical Theory Chapter 3 1 Rehabilitating Care Chapter 4 2 Just Caring About Maternal-Fetal Relations: The Case of Cocaine Using Pregnant Women Chapter 5 3 Demarginalization: An Imperative for Feminist Bioethics Chapter 6 4 Erasing Difference: Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Bioethics Part 7 II: Reproduction and Beyond Chapter 8 5 Abortion, Chernobyl and Unanswered Genetic Questions Chapter 9 6 Do Lesbians Make Infertile Couples?: Anti-Lesbian Discrimination in Assisted Reproduction Chapter 10 7 Equality, Autonomy and Feminist Bioethics Chapter 11 8 Health Commodification and the Body Politic in Contemporary China: The Example of Female Infertility Chapter 12 9 Feminism and Elective Fetal Reproduction Chapter 13 10 On Not Iterating Women's Disability: A Crossover Perspective on Genetic Dilemmas Chapter 14 11 Menopause: Is this a Disease and Should We Treat It? Part 15 III: Working For Change Chapter 16 12 Culture and Reproductive Health: Challenges for Feminist Philanthropy Chapter 17 13 Strategies for Effective Transformation Chapter 18 14 Women and Health Research: From Theory to Practice to Policy Part 19 Index Part 20 About the Editors and Contributors

Editorial Reviews

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

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

Well-written. Medical ethics professionals and advanced students should read this book, and libraries serving medical ethics courses should have it.

Choice Reviews - M. LaBar

A welcome resource for teaching and discussing tough issues with trustworthy help.

Waterwheel

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

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

Feminist scholars from a variety of fields report their latest theoretical and empirical work in 14 essays developed from presentations at the 1996 convention of the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics in San Francisco. They discuss such dimensions as rehabilitating care; abortion, Chernobyl, and unanswered genetic questions; whether menopause is a disease and should be treated; and challenges for feminist philanthropy in culture and reproductive health. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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