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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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. An egalitarian overview
- 2. Distinguishing features of women's health care
- 3. Different starting points, standpoints, end points
- 4. Preconception and prenatal decisions
- 5. Medically assisted reproduction
- 6. Noncompliance during pregnancy
- 7. Decisions at parturition and birth
- 8. Treatment of minors
- 9. Preventing pregnancy and birth
- 10. Violence and discrimination toward women and children
- 11. Nonreproductive health issues
- 12. Care of the elderly and end-of-life care
- 13. Research issues
- 14. Virtue and gender justice in health care.