A feminist challenge to practices of medicine

J Clin Ethics. 1994 Spring;5(1):70-5.

Abstract

Susan Sherwin's No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics and Health Care is a readable book that is accessible to a wide range of medical practitioners. It presupposes no prior training in ethics or feminism (and for just this reason, it may be somewhat less satisfying, although not necessarily less useful, for philosophers). The book is a feminist bioethics primer that introduces medical practitioners to issues that feminist theory makes prominent and that illuminate tensions in the structure and practice of medicine.

MeSH terms

  • Abortion, Induced
  • Bioethics*
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Empathy
  • Ethical Relativism
  • Ethical Theory
  • Ethics
  • Female
  • Feminism*
  • Fetus
  • Human Experimentation
  • Humans
  • Methods
  • Moral Obligations
  • Morals
  • Paternalism
  • Physician-Patient Relations
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnant Women
  • Prejudice
  • Reproductive Techniques, Assisted
  • Social Responsibility
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Sociology, Medical
  • Vulnerable Populations
  • Women
  • Women's Health*
  • Women's Rights*