Ethical Issues in Women's Healthcare

Numerous issues confront womens healthcare today, among them the medicalization of womens bodies, cosmetic genital surgery, violence against women, HIV, perinatal mental health disorders. This volume uniquely explores such difficult topics and others at the intersection of clinical practice, policy, and bioethics in womens health care through a feminist ethics lens. With in-depth discussions of issues in womens reproductive health, it also broadens scholarship by responding to awider array of ethical challenges that many women experience in accessing health care. Contributions touch on many themes previously tackled by feminist ethics, but in new, contemporary ways. Some chapters expand into new fields in the bioethics literature, such as the ethical issues related to the care of Indigenous women, uninsured refugees and immigrants, women engaged in sex work, and those with HIV at different life stages and perinatal mental health disorders. Authors seek to connect theory and practice with users of the health system by including womens voices in theirresearch. Bringing to bear their experience in active clinical practice in medicine, nursing, and ethics, the authors contemplate new conceptual approaches to important issues in womens healthcare, and make ethical practice recommendations for those grappling with these issues. Topical andup-to-date, this book provides a valuable resource for physicians, nurses, clinical ethicists, and researchers working in some of the most critical areas of womens health and applied ethics today.