| Description |
xiii, 272 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-265) and index. |
| Form |
Also available on the Internet to subscribing institutions. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- pt. 1. A bioethics for women -- 1. An egalitarian overview -- Diverse approaches to bioethics -- Verities, variables, and maxims -- Conceptions of justice -- Standpoint theory and its implications for just caring -- Privileging women's standpoint in our health care -- 2. Distinguishing features of women's health care -- Some sex and gender differences -- Models of the practitioner-patient relationship -- Possible modifications of principlist and casuistic methods -- Who is the patient? -- Patients and "dependent moral status" -- Guidelines and regulations -- 3. Different starting points, standpoints, end points -- Key terms -- Meaning and significance of moral status -- Moral relevance of the gestational tie and other relationships -- Personhood and potential for personhood -- Thresholds of development and moral status -- Intermediate positions about moral status -- |
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pt. 2. Topics, issues, and cases -- 4. Preconception and prenatal decisions -- Preconception counseling -- Preimplantation genetic diagnosis -- Prenatal testing -- Misattributed paternity and carrier testing-- Sex selection -- 5. Medically assisted reproduction -- Criteria for patient selection -- Gamete "donation" and "surrogacy" -- Disposition of in vitro embryos -- Multiple gestations -- 6. Noncompliance during pregnancy -- Refusal of hospitalization -- Dietary noncompliance -- Refusal of cesarean section -- 7. Decisions at parturition and birth -- Mode of delivery -- Cesarean sections for nonmedical reasons -- Decisions for impaired or very premature newborns -- Sex assignment at birth -- 8. Treatment of minors -- Teenage pregnancy and motherhood -- Confidentiality issues -- Ritual female genital surgery -- Eating disorders -- 9. Preventing pregnancy and birth -- Contraception and sterilization -- Abortion -- |
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10. Violence and discrimination toward women and children -- Child abuse and neglect -- Elderly abuse and neglect -- Violence against women -- Gender discrimination and sexual harassment -- 11. Nonreproductive health issues -- HIV testing and AIDS-- Breast and gynecological cancers -- Menopause and hormone replacement therapy -- 12. Care of the elderly and end-of-life care -- Health-related issues - Caregiver issues -- End-of-life decisions -- 13. Research issues -- Women as research subjects -- Maternal-fetal surgery -- Cloning and stem cell research -- pt. 3. An egalitarian ideal -- 14. Virtue and gender justice in health care -- Recapping the perspective -- Obligations, virtues, and ideals -- Individual decision-making and an egalitarian ideal -- Virtue in women's health care -- Notes -- Index. |
| Subject |
Medical ethics.
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Medical ethics. |
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Bioethics.
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Bioethics. |
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Feminism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Feminism -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Women -- Health and hygiene.
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Women -- Health and hygiene. |
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| ISBN |
0195176170 |
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9780195176179 |
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