168 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
168 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
168 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Our understanding of gender carries significant bioethical implications. An errant account of gender-specific disease can lead to overgeneralizations, undergeneralizations, and misdiagnoses. It can also lead to problems in the structure of health-care delivery, the creation of policy, and the development of clinical curricula.
In this volume, Cutter argues that gender-specific disease and... Read more
Selected Contents: 1. Background 2. Gender-Specific Disease: Descriptive Analysis 3. Gender-Specific Disease: Prescriptive Analysis 4. Gender-Specific Disease: Contextual Analysis 5. An Integrative Approach to Gender-Specific Disease 6. Rethinking Gender-Specific Disease Nomenclature and Taxonomies 7. Toward an Integrative Bioethics 8. Integrative Bioethics and Assessing Gender-Specific Disease 9. Implications for Health Care for Men, Children, and Members of the LGBT Communities 10. Some Lessons and Challenges 11. Concluding Reflections
Biography
Mary Ann G. Cutter is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
