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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.
152 pages, 4 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Tables, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and w
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | May 24, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138107595 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 168 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 453 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Cherry, Mark |
| Series Editor | Iltis, Ana S. |
