Feminist Perspectives In Medical Ethics

"... a welcome addition to the literature." --Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences

"... ideologically diverse selection of readings... "--Times Literary Supplement (London)

"The essays are balanced, challenging, well-argued, and well-written. They ably and accessibly represent feminist contributions to medical ethics... "

HELEN BEQUAERT HOLMES is Scholar Associate in the Office of Women's Research at Hartford College for Women. She is co-editor of Birth Control and Controlling Birth: Women-Centered Perspectives and The Custom-Made Child? Women-Centered Perspectives. LAURA M. PURDY, Professor of Philosophy at Wells College, is author of Liberated Children, Lost Children? She has also published articles on reproductive ethics.

Preface

A Call to Heal Medicine

Helen Bequaert Holmes

A Call to Heal Ethics

Laura M. Purdy

The Medical Ethics Community: Feminist Views

Feminist and Medical Ethics: Two Different Approaches to Contextual Ethics

Susan Sherwin

Feminist Directions in Medical Ethics

Virginia L. Warren

Women and AIDS: Too Little, Too Late?

Nora Kizer Bell

Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability

Susan Wendell

If Age Becomes a Standard for Rationing Health Care...

Nora Kizer Bell

The Role of Caring in Heath Care

The Role of Caring in a Theory of Nursing Ethics

Sara T. Fry

A Comment on Fry's "The Role of Caring in a Theory of Nursing Ethics"

Jeannine Ross Boyer and James Lindemann Nelson

Ethics of Caring and the Institutional Ethics Committee

Betty A. Sichel

Women and Clinical Experiments

Re-visioning Clinical Research: Gender and the Ethics of Experimental Design

Sue. V. Rosser

An Ethical Problem Concerning Recent Therapeutic Research on Breast Cancer

Don Marquis

Can Clinical Research Be Both Ethical and Scientific?: A Commentary Inspired by Rosser and Marquis

Helen Bequaert Holmes

Women and New Reproductive "Choices"

Choice, Gift, or Patriarchal Bargain? Women's Consent to In Vitro Fertilization in Male Infertility

Judith Lorber

Is Pregnancy Necessary? Feminist Concerns about Ectogenesis

Julien S. Murphy

The Moral Significance of Birth

Mary Anne Warren

Women in Labor: Some Issues about Informed Consent

Rosalind Ekman Ladd

Women, Fetuses, Medicine, and the Law

Joan C. Callahan and James W. Knight

Sex Selection through Prenatal Diagnosis: A Feminist Critique

Dorothy C. Wertz and John C. Fletcher

Contract Pregnancy

Cutting Motherhood in Two: Some Suspicions Concerning Surrogacy

Hilde Lindemann Nelson and James Lindemann Nelson

Marxism and Surrogacy

Kelly Oliver

Selling Babies and Selling Bodies

Sara Ann Ketchum

Commodification or Compensation: A Reply to Ketchum

H. M. Malm

Notes on Contributors

Index