Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 296
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-8476-8925-5 • Paperback • January 1999 • $52.00 • (£40.00)
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).
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
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 Reviews, September 1999
—Discusses both topical and theoretical issues
—Includes international and cross-cultural perspectives