The Ethics of Gender-Specific Disease Paperback / softback
by Mary Ann Cutter
Part of the Routledge Annals of Bioethics series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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- Pages:168 pages, 1 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and w
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:24/05/2017
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- ISBN:9781138107595
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages, 1 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and w
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:24/05/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138107595
