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Bioethics and Women - Across the Life Span (Hardcover)
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Bioethics and Women - Across the Life Span (Hardcover)
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All persons, while different from one another, have the same value:
this is the author'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 examination of the
issues. Classical pragmatists and feminist standpoint theorists are
enlisted in support of a strategy by which gender justice is
promoted. Two features of the book are unique: (1) the topics
presented cover the entire life span of women, not just those
related to reproduction; (2) a range views about moral status are
applied not only to fetuses but also to individuals already born.
Attention to these features is intended to facilitate ethical
consistency or moral integrity and respect for those who hold
different moral views. While delineating and defending the book's
perspective, the first section provides an overview of bioethics,
critiques prevalent approaches to bioethics and models of the
physician-patient relationship, and sketches distinguishing aspects
of women's health care that are prevalently neglected. Positions
about moral status are also presented. The second section
identifies topics that are indirectly as well as directly related
to women's health, such as domestic violence and caregiving. Brief
cases illustrate variables relevant to each topic. Empirical and
theoretical considerations follow each set of cases; these are
intended to precipitate more expansive and critical examination of
the issues raised. The last section is devoted to an egalitarian
ideal that may be pursued throughan ethic of virtue or
supererogation rather than obligation. By embracing this ideal,
according to the author, moral agents support a more demanding
level of morality than guidelines or laws require.
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