This volume considers the place of feminist bioethics within the
broader international bioethics community.
Since its emergence two decades ago, the feminist perspective on
bioethics has existed at the periphery of the discipline's
mainstream. Concerns over reproduction and women's health
issues--along with the concept that prevailing bioethical thought
was fundamentally gendered--were largely subsumed by such
overarching issues as the protection of research subjects and by
theoretical and methodological frameworks derived from Kantian
philosophy and practice-oriented principalism. Now feminist
bioethics belongs to both the mainstream and the margins. The
essays collected here explore the relation of feminist bioethics to
mainstream bioethical thought and practice.
The first section looks at the current trajectory of feminist
bioethics, its contributions to the mainstream, and how different
types of feminism can inform and strengthen feminist bioethics. In
the second section, contributors address autonomy, universalism,
and trust to probe how feminist perspectives have altered
bioethical theory. The third section examines such challenging
issues as cancer genetics, childbirth, rape, and prenatal selection
to demonstrate the effect of feminist bioethics on mainstream
methodology. Contributors to the fourth section reflect on the
relationship between feminist bioethical thought and the viewpoints
of racial, ethnic, and cultural minorities, including people with
disabilities.
Philosophically 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.
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