Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics
by Holmes, Helen Bequaert; Purdy, Laura MarthaFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1992-05-01
Publisher(s): Indiana Univ Pr
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Summary
"... a welcome addition to the literature." -- Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences"... ideologically diverse selection of readings... " -- Times Literary Supplement (London)"The essays are balanced, challenging, well-argued, and well-written. They ably and accessibly represent feminist contributions to medical ethics... " -- Religious Studies Review"... fascinating... thought-provoking... " -- Nursing Times"A stimulating book for those women and men (feminist and non-feminist) interested in medical ethics." -- Maternal and Child Health"... landmark [event] in bioethics... " -- Women & HealthThe aim of this volume is to show how a feminist perspective advances biomedical ethics by uncovering inconsistencies in traditional argument and by arguing for the importance of hitherto ignored factors in decision making. These essays include both theory and very specific examples that demonstrate the glaring inadequacy of mainstream medical ethics.
Author Biography
HELEN BEQUAERT HOLMES is Scholar Associate in the Office of Women's Research at Hartford College for Women. She is co-editor of Birth Control and Controlling Birth: Women-Centered Perspectives and The Custom-Made Child? Women-Centered Perspectives. LAURA M. PURDY, Professor of Philosophy at Wells College, is author of Liberated Children, Lost Children? She has also published articles on reproductive ethics.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| A Call to Heal Medicine | p. 1 |
| A Call to Heal Ethics | p. 9 |
| The Medical Ethics Community: Feminist Views | |
| Feminist and Medical Ethics: Two Different Approaches to Contextual Ethics | p. 17 |
| Feminist Directions in Medical Ethics | p. 32 |
| Women and AIDS: Too Little, Too Late? | p. 46 |
| Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability | p. 63 |
| If Age Becomes a Standard for Rationing Health Care... | p. 83 |
| The Role of Caring in Health Care | |
| The Role of Caring in a Theory of Nursing Ethics | p. 93 |
| A Comment on Fry's "The Role of Caring in a Theory of Nursing Ethics" | p. 107 |
| Ethics of Caring and the Institutional Ethics Committee | p. 113 |
| Women and Clinical Experiments | |
| Re-visioning Clinical Research: Gender and the Ethics of Experimental Design | p. 127 |
| An Ethical Problem Concerning Recent Therapeutic Research on Breast Cancer | p. 140 |
| Can Clinical Research Be Both Ethical and Scientific?: A Commentary Inspired by Rosser and Marquis | p. 154 |
| Women and New Reproductive "Choices" | |
| Choice, Gift, or Patriarchal Bargain? Women's Consent to In Vitro Fertilization in Male Infertility | p. 169 |
| Is Pregnancy Necessary? Feminist Concerns about Ectogenesis | p. 181 |
| The Moral Significance of Birth | p. 198 |
| Women in Labor: Some Issues about Informed Consent | p. 216 |
| Women, Fetuses, Medicine, and the Law | p. 224 |
| Sex Selection through Prenatal Diagnosis: A Feminist Critique | p. 240 |
| Contract Pregnancy | |
| Cutting Motherhood in Two: Some Suspicions Concerning Surrogacy | p. 257 |
| Marxism and Surrogacy | p. 266 |
| Selling Babies and Selling Bodies | p. 284 |
| Commodification or Compensation: A Reply to Ketchum | p. 295 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 302 |
| Index | p. 305 |
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