The Ethics of Gender-Specific Disease (Hardcover)

Our understanding of gender carries significant bioethical implications. An errant account of gender-specific disease can lead to overgeneralizations, undergeneralizations, and misdiagnoses. It can also lead to problems in the structure of health-care delivery, the creation of policy, and the development of clinical curricula. In this volume, Cutter argues that gender-specific disease and related bioethical discourses are philosophically integrative. Gender-specific disease is integrative because the descriptive roles of gender, disease, and their relation are inextricably tied to their prescriptive roles within frames of reference. An integrative account of gender-specific disease carries ethical implications because our understanding of gender-specific disease is evaluative, and our evaluations of gender-specific disease entail judgments concerning the praiseworthiness and blameworthiness of a clinical event. Cutter supports a "both/and" emphasis on context and integration in relation to gender-specific disease and bioethical analyses. While the text mainly focuses on gender-specific diseases that affect women, Cutter also includes examples involving men, children, and members of the LGBT community.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Annals of Bioethics
Release date:	April 2012
First published:	2012
Authors:	Mary Ann Cutter
Series editors:	Mark Cherry • Ana S. Iltis
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	152
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-50997-8
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
LSN:	0-415-50997-1
Barcode:	9780415509978

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