Feminist bioethics : at the center, on the margins

This volume considers the place of feminist bioethics within the broader international bioethics community. Since its emergence two decades ago, the feminist perspective on bioethics has existed at the periphery of the discipline's mainstream. Concerns over reproduction and women's health issues—along with the concept that prevailing bioethical thought was fundamentally gendered—were largely subsumed by such overarching issues as the protection of research subjects and by theoretical and methodological frameworks derived from Kantian philosophy and practice-oriented principalism. Now feminist bioethics belongs to both the mainstream and the margins. The essays collected here explore the relation of feminist bioethics to mainstream bioethical thought and practice. The first section looks at the current trajectory of feminist bioethics, its contributions to the mainstream, and how different types of feminism can inform and strengthen feminist bioethics. In the second section, contributors address autonomy, universalism, and trust to probe how feminist perspectives have altered bioethical theory. The third section examines such challenging issues as cancer genetics, childbirth, rape, and prenatal selection to demonstrate the effect of feminist bioethics on mainstream methodology. Contributors to the fourth section reflect on the relationship between feminist bioethical thought and the viewpoints of racial, ethnic, and cultural minorities, including people with disabilities. Philosophically grounded, methodologically sound, and theoretically rigorous, this paradigm-challenging collection ponders the most dynamic areas of feminist inquiry into bioethical thought and practice and sketches future directions for this rapidly growing field. The Essays Collected Here Explore The Relation Of Feminist Bioethics To Mainstream Bioethical Thought And Practice. From Publisher Description. The Expanding Landscape : Recent Directions In Feminist Bioethics / Anne Donchin -- It Is Her Problem, Not Ours : Contributions Of Feminist Bioethics To The Mainstream / Christoph Rehmann-sutter -- Broadening The Feminism In Feminist Bioethics / Richard Twine -- Conceptions Of Autonomy And Conceptions Of The Body In Bioethics / Catriona Mackenzie -- Trust, Method, And Moral Progress In Feminist Bioethics / Jessica Prata Miller -- The Right To Life : Rethinking Universalism In Bioethics / Mary C. Rawlinson -- Bodies, Connectedness, And Knowledge : A Contextual Approach To Hereditary Cancer Genetics / Lori D'agincourt-canning -- Stories Of Innocence And Experience : Bodily Narrative And Rape / Fiona Utley -- Where's The Harm? : Challenging Bioethical Support Of Prenatal Selection For Sexual Orientation / Janice Mclaughlin -- Toward A Methodology For Technocratic Transformation : Feminist Bioethics, Midwifery, And Women's Health In The Twenty-first Century / Al-yasha Ilhaam And Ina May Gaskin -- -- The Difference Difference Makes : Public Health And The Complexities Of Racial And Ethnic Differences / Ruth Groenhout -- Feminist Bioethics And Indigenous Research Reform In Australia : Is An Alliance Across Gender, Racial, And Cultural Borders A Useful Strategy For Promoting Change? / Jennifer Baker, Terry Dunbar, And Margaret Scrimgeour -- China's Birth Control Program Through Feminist Lenses / Jing-bao Nie -- A Feminist Standpoint On Disability: Our Bodies, Ourselves / Mary B. Mahowald -- Conclusion : Reassessment And Renewal / Jackie Leach Scully. Edited By Jackie Leach Scully, Laurel E. Baldwin-ragaven, Petya Fitzpatrick. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The expanding landscape : new directions in feminist bioethics / Anne Donchin "it is her problem, not ours" : contributions of feminist bioethics to the mainstream / Christoph Rehmann-Sutter Broadening the feminism in feminist bioethics / Richard Twine Conceptions of autonomy and conceptions of the body in bioethics / Catriona Mackenzie Trust, method, and moral progress in feminist bioethics / Jessica Prata Miller The right to life : rethinking universalism in bioethics / Mary C. Rawlinson Bodies, connectedness, and knowledge : a contextual approach to hereditary cancer genetics / Lori D'Agincourt-Canning Toward a methodology for technocratic transformation : feminist bioethics, midwifery, and women's health in the twenty-first century / Al-Yasha Ilhaam and Ina May Gaskin Where's the harm? : challenging bioethical support of prenatal selection for sexual orientation / Janice McLaughlin Stories of innocence and experience : bodily narrative and rape / Fiona Utley The difference difference makes : public health and the complexities of racial and ethnic differences / Ruth Groenhout Feminist bioethics and indigenous research reform in Australia : is an alliance across gender, racial, and cultural borders a useful strategy for promoting change? / Jennifer Baker, Terry Dunbar, and Margaret Scrimgeour China's birth control program through a feminist lens : toward a women-centered population policy / Jing-Bao Nie A feminist standpoint on disability: our bodies, ourselves / Mary B. Mahowald Conclusion, jackie leach scully.