Philosophy, gender politics, and in vitro fertilization: A feminist ethics of reproductive healthcare

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 160-176

  LeMoncheck, Linda ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; DEHUMANIZATION; ETHICAL THEORY; FEMINISM; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MORALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHILOSOPHY; POLITICS; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONTROL; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

DEHUMANIZATION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISCLOSURE; ETHICAL THEORY; FEMINISM; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HUMANS; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; PATIENT SELECTION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHILOSOPHY; POLITICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; UNITED STATES; VIRTUES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 0030155440     PISSN: 10467890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. The epigraph that opened this article is quoted from "Reproductive Technologies and the Deconstruction of Motherhood," in Reproductive Technologies: Gender, Motherhood, and Medicine, ed. Michelle Stanworth (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987), 35.
2. For feminist documentation of the medical pathology and appropriation of women's reproduction, see S. Arms, Immaculate Deception (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975)
3. and Immaculate Deception II: A Fresh Look at Childbirth (Berkeley, Calif.: Celestial Arts, 1994);
4. D. Scully, Men Who Control Women's Health: The Miseducation of Obstetrician-Gynecologists (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980);
5. G. Corea, The Mother Machine: Reproductive Technologies from Artificial Insemination to Artificial Wombs (New York: Harper & Row, 1985), chap. 15 and 16;