Women and Children in Health Care examines health care issues from an egalitarian perspective, focusing particularly on those that affect the lives of women and children. These are some of the most hotly debated, controversial, yet genuinely humanitarian issues of our time. They include gender stereotypes in medicine and in adolescent socialization, fertility curtailment and enhancement, coercive treatment during pregnancy, fetal tissue transplantation, and the meaning androle of family in health care decisions.Because of the timeliness of the topics discussed, and the depth of detail, this book will be necessary reading for all bioethicists, health-care analysts and policy-makers, and womens studies researchers.
An Egalitarian Overview; Sex-Roles and Stereotypes in Health Care; Obstetrics and Gynecology:: A Unique Specialty; Abortion:: Complexity and Conflict; Fertility Curtailment:: Selected Issues; Fertility Enhancement and the Right to Have a Baby; In Vitro Development and Childbirth; Coercive Treatment After Fetal Viability; Fetal Tissue Transplantation — A Slippery Slope?; Decisions Regarding Disabled Newborns; Children and Moral Agency; Gender Socialization and Adolescents; The Feminization of Poverty:: Its Impact on Womens and Childrens Health; The Family and Health Care; Just Caring:: Power for Empowerment;
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