The Ethics of Gender-Specific Disease [Hardcover]

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 related bioethical discourses are philosophically integrative. Gender-specific disease is integrative because the descriptive roles of gender, disease, and their relation are inextricably tied to their prescriptive roles within frames of reference. An integrative account of gender-specific disease carries ethical implications because our understanding of gender-specific disease is evaluative, and our evaluations of gender-specific disease entail judgments concerning the praiseworthiness and blameworthiness of a clinical event. Cutter supports a both/and emphasis on context and integration in relation to gender-specific disease and bioethical analyses.

While the text mainly focuses on gender-specific diseases that affect women, Cutter also includes examples involving men, children, and members of the LGBT community.

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 ClÃ-