Bioethics and Women: Across the Life Span

by Mary Briody Mahowald

Book Overview

All persons, while different from one another, have the same value: this is the author'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's focus is women's health care, gender justice, a necessary component of justice, is central to examination of the issues. Classical pragmatists and feminist standpoint theorists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195176170
• ISBN13: 9780195176179
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.4"