Author: Susan M. Wolf Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand ISBN: 9780195095562 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 398
Book Description
Bioethics tackles the most vexing problems in health care and the biological sciences: from reproductive technologies to euthanasia, the AIDS epidemic, mapping the human genome, human subjects research, and health care reform. Yet surprisingly little attention has been paid to the special problems faced by women and to feminist analyses of current health care issues other than reproduction. This breakthrough volume of original essays authored by leading figures in bioethics and feminist theory moves beyond the areas of reproduction and nursing, taking bioethics into new territory. The book starts with an investigation of the relationship between feminism and bioethics and introduces different approaches to the problem. These chapters stress the importance of liberal feminism that prefers feminist over feminine analysis, integrates the experience of women of color, draws from the women's self-help movement, and uses the feminist stand-point theory.; In the second part of the book, the authors apply the feminist perspective to different bioethics problems: euthanasia, AIDS, the definition of health, doctor-patient communication, the Human Genome Project, the conduct of biomedical research, and health care reform. They demonstrate the gain and benefit that results when bioethics pays attention to gender and feminism. This volume will change the way bioethicists, students, patients, and the public think about these profoundly challenging problems.
Author: Karen L. Baird Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press ISBN: 0838641849 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 161
Book Description
Examines the women's health movement of the 1990s and how activists achieved policy changes in the areas of medical research, HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, and violence against women. -- Back cover.
Author: Isabella Bakker Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 041577585X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 227
Book Description
Exploring difficult and crucial aspects of the transnational gender politics of globalization, this book provides a unique and valuable introduction to the history of the concept of social reproduction from an inter-disciplinary perspective.
Author: Rosemary A. Joyce Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 9780812217230 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 292
Book Description
Beyond Kinship brings together ethnohistorians, archaeologists, and cultural anthropologists for the first time in a common discussion of the social model of house societies proposed by Claude Levi-Strauss. While kinship theory has been central to the study of social organization, an alternative approach has emerged—that of seeing the "house" both as a physical and symbolic structure and a principle of social organization. The house stands as a model social formation that is distinguished by its attention to a number of material domains (land, the dwelling, ritual and nonritual objects). As the essays in this volume make clear, the focus on material culture and on place contributes to the ongoing convergence of anthropology and history and helps erase the artificial distinctions between prehistory and history. Contributions to the volume offer significant new interpretations of primary data as well as reconsidering classic ethnographic material. Beyond Kinship crosses the boundaries within anthropology—not only between cultural anthropology and archaeology but between structural—symbolic and materialist approaches and between American and British schools of anthropology; it is intended to advance the fruitful dialogue now taking place within the field.
Author: Patricia Spallone Publisher: ISBN: Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
Beyond Conception is a feminist critique of the new reproductive and genetic technologies whose impact has been most apparent since the birth of the first test-tube baby. The author finds that these technologies are not created in women's interest. Instead, they require the subordination of women to science.
Author: Tithi Bhattacharya Publisher: Pluto Press (UK) ISBN: 9780745399881 Category : Capitalism Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Crystallizing the essential principles of social reproductive theory, this anthology provides long-overdue analysis of everyday life under capitalism. It focuses on issues such as childcare, healthcare, education, family life, and the roles of gender, race, and sexuality--all of which are central to understanding the relationship between exploitation and social oppression. Tithi Bhattacharya brings together some of the leading writers and theorists, including Lise Vogel, Nancy Fraser, and Susan Ferguson, in order for us to better understand social relations and how to improve them in the fight against structural oppression.
Author: Susan Martha Kahn Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 9780822325987 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 244
Book Description
Explores the debates about new reproductive technologies in Israel and how they fit with Orthodox Jewish laws concerning parentage and Jewish identity.
Author: Susan M. Wolf Faculty Associate at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Associate Professor of Law and Medicine University of Minnesota Law School Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199759677 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 418
Book Description
Bioethics has paid surprisingly little attention to the special problems faced by women and to feminist analyses of current health care issues other than reproduction. Feminism & Bioethics: Beyond Reproduction aims to counterbalance this one-sided approach. A breakthrough volume of original essays authored by leading figures in bioethics and feminist theory, it moves beyond reproduction and nursing, taking bioethics into new territory. The book starts with an investigation of the relationship between feminism and bioethics and introduces different approaches to the problem. Chapters stress the importance of liberal feminism which prefers feminist over feminine analysis, integrate the experience of women of color, draw from the women's self-help movement, and apply feminist standpoint theory. In the second part of the book, contributors view various bioethical problems from a feminist perspective: euthanasia, AIDS, the definition of health, doctor-patient communication, the Human Genome Project, the conduct of biomedical research, and health care reform. They examine the pros and cons of the application of gender and feminism to bioethics. This provocative volume is bound to change and broaden the way bioethicists, students, patients, and the public consider bioethical issues.
Author: A.J. Lowik Publisher: Demeter Press ISBN: 1772583685 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 187
Book Description
The Liminal Chrysalis: Imagining Reproduction and Parenting Futures Beyond the Binary is an edited collection that works to identify and deconstruct many of the countless binaries that operate within the realms of parenting and reproduction. Weaving poetry, speculative fiction, and autobiography with interviews, critical analysis, and research, the authors take as their starting place that there is magical potential and possibility in the ambiguous, disorienting spaces of the in-between and the beyond. The collection challenges the constructedness of binaries connected to sex, gender, sexuality, and parenting roles, as well as the cis-, hetero-, repro-, trans-, and amatonormativities which pervasively circulate and inform how we think about parenting and reproductive life. The collection amplifies the voices of non-binary authors among others, and tells stories of menstruation, pregnancy, abortion, assisted reproductive technologies, fertility preservation, parenthood, and activism in the face of violent binaries and reproductive injustices.
Author: Susan M. Wolf
Author: Karen L. Baird
Author: Isabella Bakker
Author: Rosemary A. Joyce
Author: Patricia Spallone
Author: Tithi Bhattacharya
Author: Susan Martha Kahn
Author: Susan M. Wolf Faculty Associate at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Associate Professor of Law and Medicine University of Minnesota Law School
Author: Stephen Kemmis
Author: A.J. Lowik