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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461930203321

Autore

Cutter Mary Ann Gardell

Titolo

The ethics of gender-specific disease / / Mary Ann G. Cutter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-64273-5

0-203-12342-5

1-136-33907-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 p.)

Collana

Routledge annals of bioethics ; ; 11

Disciplina

174.2/969

Soggetti

Medical ethics

Sex factors in disease

Health - Sex differences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Background -- Gender-specific disease: descriptive analysis -- Gender-specific disease: prescriptive analysis -- Gender-specific disease: contextual analysis -- An integrative approach to gender-specific disease -- Rethinking gender-specific disease nomenclature and taxonomies -- Toward an integrative bioethics -- Integrative bioethics and assessing gender-specific disease -- Implications for health care for men, children, and members of the lgbt communities -- Some lessons and challenges -- Concluding reflections.

Sommario/riassunto

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 tie