Reviews for Feminist Approaches To Bioethics

The average rating for Feminist Approaches To Bioethics based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-05-04 00:00:00 Jeff Lukas In this book, Rosemarie Tong looks at how feminist bioethics differs from traditional, non-feminist concepts; without completely rejecting these previous principles employed in both ethics and bioethics. Instead by investigating both traditional and feminist approaches to bioethics, as well as their practical application, she finds that instead of outright rejection, traditional ethics requires a transformation that will encompass both male and female perspectives in this realm. This is an incredibly useful book, though arguably too focused on reproductive issues, reinforcing ideas that female issues are the 'other' in comparison to the status quo of male and gender neutral issues. Despite this imperfection, this is a well written and in depth look at feminist approaches to bioethics, looking comparatively throughout at classical and feminist ideas in ethics and more specifically bioethics, noting that often autonomy looks different to man than it does to a woman in an attempt to raise awareness about forms of gender oppression that exists even today in the field of medicine and health care.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-08-08 00:00:00 Edward S Smith ahem, i am one of the editors...