| Description |
xiii, 272 pages ; 24 cm |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-265) and index |
| Notes |
Also available on the Internet to subscribing institutions |
| Subject |
Medical ethics.
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Bioethics.
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Feminism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Women -- Health and hygiene.
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| LC no. |
2006040004 |
| ISBN |
0195176170 |
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