Description
Book SynopsisPhilosophically 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.
Trade ReviewThe bite-sized accessible chapters would be useful in undergraduate or graduate courses as a source of readings, research, and presentation topics. Choice 2010
Table of ContentsList 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
