Mary Ann Cutter

The Ethics of Gender-Specific Disease

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Our understanding of gender carries significant bioethical implications. An errant account of gender-specific disease can lead to overgeneralizations, undergeneralizations, and misdiagnoses. It can also lead to problems in the structure of health-care delivery, the creation of policy, and the development of clinical curricula. In this volume, Cutter argues that gender-specific disease and related bioethical discourses are philosophically integrative. Gender-specific disease is integrative because the descriptive roles of gender, disease, and their relation are inextricably tied to their prescriptive roles within frames of reference. An integrative account of gender-specific disease carries ethical implications because our understanding of gender-specific disease is evaluative, and our evaluations of gender-specific disease entail judgments concerning the praiseworthiness and blameworthiness of a clinical event. Cutter supports a "both/and" emphasis on context and integration in relation to gender-specific disease and bioethical analyses. While the text mainly focuses on gender-specific diseases that affect women, Cutter also includes examples involving men, children, and members of the LGBT community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780415509978
• ISBN-10: 0415509971
• Artikelnr.: 34160978

Autorenporträt

Mary Ann G. Cutter is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

Inhaltsangabe

Selected Contents: 1. Background 2. Gender-Specific Disease: Descriptive
Analysis 3. Gender-Specific Disease: Prescriptive Analysis 4.
Gender-Specific Disease: Contextual Analysis 5. An Integrative Approach to
Gender-Specific Disease 6. Rethinking Gender-Specific Disease Nomenclature
and Taxonomies 7. Toward an Integrative Bioethics 8. Integrative Bioethics
and Assessing Gender-Specific Disease 9. Implications for Health Care for
Men, Children, and Members of the LGBT Communities 10. Some Lessons and
Challenges 11. Concluding Reflections