Bioethics and women : across the life span / Mary Briody Mahowald.

By:

Mahowald, Mary Briody [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006Description: xiii, 272 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0195176170
9780195176179

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

176 22

Contents:

1. An egalitarian overview -- 2. Distinguishing features of women's health care -- 3. Different starting points, standpoints, end points -- 4. Preconception and prenatal decisions -- 5. Medically assisted reproduction -- 6. Noncompliance during pregnancy -- 7. Decisions at parturition and birth -- 8. Treatment of minors -- 9. Preventing pregnancy and birth -- 10. Violence and discrimination toward women and children -- 11. Nonreproductive health issues -- 12. Care of the elderly and end-of-life care -- 13. Research issues -- 14. Virtue and gender justice in health care.

Review: "All persons, while different from one another, have the same value: this is Mary Mahowald's relatively uncontroversial starting point. Her end point is not uncontroversial: an ideal of justice as human flourishing, based on each person's unique set of capabilities. Because the book's focus is women's health care, gender justice - a necessary component of justice - is central to her consideration of the issues. Classical pragmatists and feminist standpoint theorists are enlisted in support of a strategy by which gender justice is promoted."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-265) and index.

"All persons, while different from one another, have the same value: this is Mary Mahowald's relatively uncontroversial starting point. Her end point is not uncontroversial: an ideal of justice as human flourishing, based on each person's unique set of capabilities. Because the book's focus is women's health care, gender justice - a necessary component of justice - is central to her consideration of the issues. Classical pragmatists and feminist standpoint theorists are enlisted in support of a strategy by which gender justice is promoted."--BOOK JACKET.

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