Embodying Bioethics: Recent Feminist Advances (New Feminist Perspectives) [Hardcover]

Anne Donchin (Editor), Laura M. Purdy (Editor), Françoise Baylis (Contributor), Elisabeth Boetzkes (Contributor), Alisa L. Carse (Contributor), Jocelyn Downie (Contributor), Lisa Handwerker (Contributor), Helen Bequaert Holmes (Contributor), Nikki Jones (Contributor), Hilde Lindemann Nelson (Contributor), Julien S. Murphy (Contributor), Barbara Nicholas (Contributor), Wendy A. Rogers (Contributor), Mary V. Rorty (Contributor), Laura Shanner (Contributor), Susan Sherwin (Contributor), Anita Silvers (Contributor), Rosemarie Tong (Contributor), Susan Wolf (Contributor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0847689247 | ISBN-13: 978-0847689248 | Publication Date: January 1, 1999 | Edition: 1

In this important book, a distinguished group of feminist scholars and activists discuss crucial bioethics topics in a feminist light. Among the subjects explored are the care/justice debates, transforming bioethics, practice, and reproduction. The book also covers less commonly discussed issues, such as culturally appropriate responses to reproductive health problems in developing countries.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A welcome resource for teaching and discussing tough issues with trustworthy help. (Waterwheel )

Right from the start the book gives the reader fresh insights. The depth of analysis of issues already much discussed stimulates new questions. Other issues that have been less considered are addressed in thorough and thought-provoking ways. Many of the authors not only present their analysis clearly but also force the reader--as the authors force themselves--to wonder if an analysis or political strategy is effective, so that these writings meet the highest standards of scholarship. Anyone interested in feminist bioethics will want it on her, or his, shelf. (Religious Studies Review )

This volume contributes to an understanding of expanding feminist approaches, which are not only setting out an agenda for social change but are moving to undergird this agenda with vital, well-supported arguments. (Ethics )

This book is very successful. Overall the individual contributions move the conversation forward, either interjecting a feminist voice into a specific topic or highlighting less visible facets of a debate. I doubt that this book will collect dust on my shelves. (Philosophy In Review )

Well-written. Medical ethics professionals and advanced students should read this book, and libraries serving medical ethics courses should have it. (M. LaBar Choice, September 1999 )

About the Author

Anne Donchin is associate professor of philosophy and former director of Women's Studies at Indiana University, Indianapolis. She is the author of The Birthing Industry: A Feminist Critique. Laura M. Purdy is professor of philosophy, University of Toronto and bioethicist, Toronto Hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital, Ontario Cancer Institute and Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. Among her publications are Reproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist Bioethics and Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics (with Helen Bequeart Holmes).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 296 pages
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 1 edition (January 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0847689247
• ISBN-13: 978-0847689248
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,735,176 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)