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The Ethics of Gender-Specific Disease - Routledge Annals of Bioethics Cutter, Mary Ann (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA) 1st edition
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The Ethics of Gender-Specific Disease - Routledge Annals of Bioethics
Cutter, Mary Ann (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA)
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.
168 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables, 4 black & white line drawings
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 18, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415509978 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 152 |
| Dimensions | 166 × 236 × 14 mm · 366 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Cherry, Mark |
| Series Editor | Iltis, Ana S. |
