Feminist Perspectives in Medical EthicsHelen B. Holmes, Laura Martha Purdy The fields of medical ethics and women's studies have experienced unprecedented growth. This work aims to show how a feminist perspective advances biomedical ethics. It uncovers inconsistencies in traditional arguments and argues for the importance of hitherto ignored factors in decision making. |
Contents
A Call to Heal Ethics | 9 |
Two Different Approaches to Contextual | 17 |
Feminist Directions in Medical Ethics | 32 |
Too Little Too Late? | 46 |
Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability | 63 |
If Age Becomes a Standard for Rationing Health Care | 82 |
The Role of Caring in a Theory of Nursing Ethics | 93 |
A Comment on Frys The Role of Caring in a Theory of Nursing Ethics | 107 |
Choice Gift or Patriarchal Bargain? Womens Consent to In Vitro | 169 |
Is Pregnancy Necessary? Feminist Concerns about Ectogenesis | 181 |
The Moral Significance of Birth | 198 |
Some Issues about Informed Consent | 216 |
Women Fetuses Medicine and the | 224 |
A Feminist Critique | 240 |
Some Suspicions Concerning Surrogacy | 257 |
Marxism and Surrogacy | 266 |
Ethics of Caring and the Institutional Ethics Committee | 113 |
Gender and the Ethics of Experimental | 127 |
An Ethical Problem Concerning Recent Therapeutic Research on Breast | 140 |
A Commentary | 154 |
Selling Babies and Selling Bodies | 284 |
Notes on Contributors | 302 |
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