Feminist Bioethics

At the Center, on the Margins
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8018-9425-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 442 g

This volume considers the place of feminist bioethics within the broader international bioethics community.

Since its emergence two decades ago, the feminist perspective on bioethics has existed at the periphery of the discipline's mainstream. Concerns over reproduction and women's health issues—along with the concept that prevailing bioethical thought was fundamentally gendered—were largely subsumed by such overarching issues as the protection of research subjects and by theoretical and methodological frameworks derived from Kantian philosophy and practice-oriented principalism. Now feminist bioethics belongs to both the mainstream and the margins. The essays collected here explore the relation of feminist bioethics to mainstream bioethical thought and practice.

The first section looks at the current trajectory of feminist bioethics, its contributions to the mainstream, and how different types of feminism can inform and strengthen feminist bioethics. In the second section, contributors address autonomy, universalism, and trust to probe how feminist perspectives have altered bioethical theory. The third section examines such challenging issues as cancer genetics, childbirth, rape, and prenatal selection to demonstrate the effect of feminist bioethics on mainstream methodology. Contributors to the fourth section reflect on the relationship between feminist bioethical thought and the viewpoints of racial, ethnic, and cultural minorities, including people with disabilities.

Philosophically grounded, methodologically sound, and theoretically rigorous, this paradigm-challenging collection ponders the most dynamic areas of feminist inquiry into bioethical thought and practice and sketches future directions for this rapidly growing field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scully, Jackie Leach

Baldwin-Ragaven, Laurel E

Fitzpatrick, Petya

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Introduction to Feminist Bioethics
Chapter 1. The Expanding Landscape: Recent Directions in Feminist Bioethics
Chapter 2. "It Is Her Problem, Not Ours": Contributions of Feminist Bioethics to the Mainstream
Chapter 3. Broadening the Feminism in Feminist Bioethics
Part II. Theory in Feminist Bioethics
Chapter 4. Conceptions of Autonomy and Conceptions of the Body in Bioethics
Chapter 5. Trust, Method, and Moral Progress in Feminist Bioethics
Chapter 6. The Right to Life: Rethinking Universalism in Bioethics
Part III. From Theory to Method
Chapter 7. Bodies, Connectedness, and Knowledge: A Contextual Approach to Hereditary Cancer Genetics
Chapter 8. Stories of Innocence and Experience: Bodily Narrative and Rape
Chapter 9. Where's the Harm? Challenging Bioethical Support of Prenatal Selection for Sexual Orientation
Chapter 10. Toward a Methodology for Technocratic Transformation: Feminist Bioethics, Midwifery, and Women's Health in the Twenty-first Century
Part IV. Understanding Difference: Making and Breaking Connections within and between the Margins
Chapter 11. The Difference Difference Makes: Public Health and the Complexities of Racial and Ethnic Differences
Chapter 12. Feminist Bioethics and Indigenous Research Reform in Australia: Is an Alliance across Gender, Racial, and Cultural Borders a Useful Strategy for Promoting Change?
Chapter 13. China's Birth Control Program through Feminist Lenses
Chapter 14. A Feminist Standpoint on Disability: Our Bodies, Ourselves
Conclusion. Reassessment and Renewal
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fitzpatrick, Petya
Petya Fitzpatrick, M.A., is a health care researcher with the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University.

Scully, Jackie Leach
Jackie Leach Scully, Ph.D., is a reader in social and bioethics at Newcastle University, where she is the director of research with the Policy, Ethics, and Life Sciences Research Centre. She is an honorary senior lecturer in the University of Sydney's Faculty of Medicine.

Baldwin-Ragaven, Laurel E
Laurel E. Baldwin-Ragaven, M.D.C.M., is medical and executive director of the Malta House of Care in Hartford, Connecticut.

Jackie Leach Scully, Ph.D., is a reader in social and bioethics at Newcastle University, where she is the director of research with the Policy, Ethics, and Life Sciences Research Centre. She is an honorary senior lecturer in the University of Sydney's Faculty of Medicine. Laurel E. Baldwin-Ragaven, M.D.C.M., is medical and executive director of the Malta House of Care in Hartford, Connecticut. Petya Fitzpatrick, M.A., is a health care researcher with the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University.