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Author Sherwin, Susan

Title Women, Medicine, Ethics and the Law
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (463 pages)
Series Routledge Revivals Ser
Routledge Revivals Ser
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Series Preface; Introduction; 1 Gender and Culture in the Globalization of Bioethics; I. FEMALE CIRCUMCISION; II. FERTILITY COERCION AS ENVIRONMENTALLY DICTATED; III. COMMONALITY WITHIN RELIGION, FEMINISM AND BIOETHICS; 2 Women, Health and the Environment; INTRODUCTION; UNDERSTANDING ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS AND THEIR IMPACT ON WOMEN'S WELL BEING; SOCIOCULTURAL IMPACTS ON WOMEN'S ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; UNDERSTANDING ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: A NEW MODEL; WOMEN'S ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: URBAN ISSUES
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION: SOURCES AND IMPACTS ON WOMEN'S HEALTHENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ON WOMEN'S HEALTH: A CASE STUDY; WOMEN'S ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: THE POLICY ISSUES; THE WAY FORWARD; REFERENCES; 3 International Human Rights and Women's Reproductive Health; Treaty Interpretation; The International Protection of Women's Reproductive Rights; Conclusion; References and Notes; 4 Moral and Policy Issues in Long-Acting Contraception; ABSTRACT; DEVELOPMENT OF LONG-ACTING CONTRACEPTIVES: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES, FUTURE PROSPECTS; CONTRACEPTIVE POLICY AND ETHICS: US HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE WITH LONG-ACTING CONTRACEPTIVESRIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: THE ETHICS OF LACs; LACs AND PUBLIC POLICY; LONG-ACTING CONTRACEPTIVES AND THE FUTURE: PERSONAL AND PUBLIC CHOICES; 5 Abortion and Embodiment; 1. Introduction; II. Responsibility and Autonomy; III. Foetal Status and Potentiality; IV. Pregnant Embodiment and Bodily Autonomy; A. Bodily Autonomy, Subjectivity and Responsibility; B. Evacuation and Abortion; V. Conclusion: Metaphors, Experience and Moral Thinking; 6 Prenatal Genetic Testing and Screening: Constructing Needs and Reinforcing Inequities
I. INTRODUCTIONII. HEALTH AND DISEASE AND THE STORIES TOLD ABOUT THEM; III. PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS: A TECHNICAL AND A SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION; IV. THE CONTEXT OF GENETICIZATION; V. CONCLUSION; 7 Maternal-Fetal Relationship: The Courts and Social Policy; INTRODUCTION; I. THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN REDEFINING PROCREATIVE RIGHTS; II. THE FETAL ENVIRONMENT: A SUMMARY OF MEDICAL EVIDENCE AND LEGAL TRENDS; III. DEFINING RESPONSIBILITY FOR FETAL HEALTH; IV. SOCIETAL RESPONSIBILITY: PREVENTIVE STRATEGIES FOR FETAL HEALTH; V. THE RIGHTS CONTEXT: A FORMULA FOR CONFLICT
VI. THE POLICY PROBLEM: HOW TO BALANCE MATERNAL AND FETAL INTERESTSCONCLUSION; 8 Philosophy, Gender Politics, and In Vitro Fertilization: A Feminist Ethic of Reproductive Healthcare; OVERVIEW; IVF AND THE TRANSFER OF EMBRYOS; THE INADEQUACY OF TRADITIONAL ETHICAL THEORY; CLINICAL CARE AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY UNDER A FEMINIST ETHICS OF REPRODUCTION; A FEMINIST ETHICS OF REPRODUCTION FOR HMOs?; NOTES; 9 Is Women's Labor a Commodity?; WHAT IS A COMMODITY?; THE CASE OF COMMERCIAL SURROGACY; CHILDREN AS COMMODITIES; WOMEN'S LABOR AS A COMMODITY; COMMERCIAL SURROGACY, FREEDOM, AND THE LAW
Notes 10 Motherhood, Madness, and Law
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Subject Women -- Health and hygiene -- Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics.
Medical laws and legislation.
Ethics, Medical
Medical ethics
Medical laws and legislation
Women -- Health and hygiene -- Moral and ethical aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Parish, Barbara
ISBN 9781351746038
1351746030
1003073786
9781003073789
1000114341
9781000114348