A feminist standpoint for genetics

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 333-339

  Mahowald, Mary B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BEHAVIOR; CASE REPORT; ETHICAL THEORY; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GENDER IDENTITY; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETICS; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHENYLKETONURIA; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; REVIEW; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GENDER IDENTITY; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETICS; HUMANS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHENYLKETONURIAS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANT WOMEN; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL VALUES;

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References (8)

1. I developed this perspective more fully in "An Egalitarian Overview," chapter 1 of Women and Children in Health Care: An Unequal Majority (New York: Oxford University Press, 1933), 3-19.
2. Some of the material developed here is drawn from my article, "On Treatment of Myopia: Feminist Standpoint Theory and Bioethics," in Feminism and Bioethics, S.W. Wolf, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 95-111.
3. T. Nagel, Equality and Partiality (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 10-20.
4. T. Nagel, Equality and Partiality., 11. Ibid.
5. K.M. Hunter, "Narrative," in The Encyclopedia of Bioethics, W. Reich, ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1995), 1789-94.
6. A.R. Jonsen, "Casuistry and Clinical Ethics," Theoretical Medicine 7 (February, 1986): 65-73.
7. See C. Gilligan, "Moral Orientation and Moral Development," in Women and Moral Theory, E.F. Kittay and D.T. Meyer, ed. (Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1987), 19-33.
8. N. Hartsock, Money, Sex, and Power (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1985), 232.