Globalizing Feminist Bioethics: Crosscultural Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Rosemarie Tong, Gwen Anderson, Aida Santos-Maranan

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 383
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Globalizing Feminist Bioethics is a collection of new essays on the topic of international bioethics that developed out of the Third World Congress of the International Association of Bioethics in 1996. Rosemarie Tong is the primary editor of this collection, in which she, Gwen Anderson, and Aida Santos look at such international issues as female genital cutting, fatal daughter syndrome, use of reproductive technologies, male responsibility, pediatrics, breast cancer, pregnancy, and drug testing.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Acronyms
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1 Theoretical Perspectives
1 Feminist Reflections on the Role of Theories in a Global Bioethics
2 Is a Global Bioethics Possible As Well As Desirable? A Millennial Feminist Response
3 Feminism and Genetic Nursing: Globalizing Transdisciplinary Teams
4 Kagandahang Loob: A Filipino Concept of Feminine Bioethics
5 Feminist Bioethics: The Emergence of the Oppressed
Part 2 Reproductive, Genetic, and Sexual Health
6 Shifts of Attention: The Experience of Pregnancy in Dualist and Nondualist Cultures
7 Normalizing Reproductive Technologies and the Implications for Autonomy
8 Autonomy and Procreation: Brazilian Feminist Analyses
9 Friendly Persuasion? Legislative Enforcement of Male Responsibility for Contraception
10 So Bitter That No Words Can Describe It: Mainland Chinese Women's Moral Experiences and Narratives of Induced Abortion
11 Cultural Differences and Sex Selection
12 Fatal Daughter Syndrome
13 Human Cloning and the Problem of Scarcity: A Sartrean Perspective
14 Maria's Desire: Considerations About a Moment of "Genetic Counseling" for Breast Cancer
15 Female Genital Circumcision and Conventionalist Ethical Relativism
16 HIV/AIDS and Prostitution in Mainland China: A Feminist Perspective
Part 3 Medical Research and Treatment
17 Ways to Approach the Problem of Including Women in Clinical Drug Trials
18 Globalization, Gender, and Research
19 Realizing Justice in Health Research for Women: Reflections on Democratizing Decisionmaking
20 What Can Survivors of Nazi Experiments Teach Us All? A Feminist Approach to a Problem with Global Implications
21 Organ Transplantation and Community Values: Concerns of a Feminist Grief Counselor
22 Serving Nationalist Ideologies: Health Professionals and the Violation of Women's Rights: The Case of Apartheid South Africa
Epilogue
About the Editors and Contributors
Index