The ethics of gender-specific disease
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The ethics of gender-specific disease
（Routledge annals of bioethics / series editors, Mark J. Cherry, Ana Smith Iltis, 11）
Routledge, 2012
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-147) and index
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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.
Table of Contents
Selected Contents: 1. Background 2. Gender-Specific Disease: Descriptive Analysis 3. Gender-Specific Disease: Prescriptive Analysis 4. Gender-Specific Disease: Contextual Analysis 5. An Integrative Approach to Gender-Specific Disease 6. Rethinking Gender-Specific Disease Nomenclature and Taxonomies 7. Toward an Integrative Bioethics 8. Integrative Bioethics and Assessing Gender-Specific Disease 9. Implications for Health Care for Men, Children, and Members of the LGBT Communities 10. Some Lessons and Challenges 11. Concluding Reflections
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