Bioethics and women : across the life span / Mary Briody Mahowald.
"All persons, while different from one another, have the same value: this is Mary Mahowald's relatively uncontroversial starting point. Her end point is not uncontroversial: an ideal of justice as human flourishing, based on each person's unique set of capabilities. Because the book&#...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Summary: | "All persons, while different from one another, have the same value: this is Mary Mahowald's relatively uncontroversial starting point. Her end point is not uncontroversial: an ideal of justice as human flourishing, based on each person's unique set of capabilities. Because the book's focus is women's health care, gender justice - a necessary component of justice - is central to her consideration of the issues. Classical pragmatists and feminist standpoint theorists are enlisted in support of a strategy by which gender justice is promoted."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 272 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-265) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0195176170 9780195176179 |