Bioethics,Public Health,and Firearm-Related Violence: Missing Links between Bioethics and Public Health

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See id. at 2834.

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Klass P. , A Not Entirely Benign Procedure (New York: Signet, 1988): 70–71.

Id. at 68.

The inability of bioethicists to recognize particular moral issues receives thoughtful scrutiny from a number of scholars developing feminist scholarship in bioethics. Whereas I focus on the importance of class and class interests, they draw attention to the need for greater awareness of gender for critical social analysis. See, for example, Tong R. , Feminist Approaches to Bioethics: Theoretical Reflections and Practical Applications (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997); Wolf S.M. , ed., Feminism & Bioethics: Beyond Reproduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996); and Sherwin S. , No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics and Health Care (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992). For a more general consideration of the significance of gender for political and moral philosophy, see Okin S.M. , Justice, Gender, and the Family (New York: Basic Books, 1989).

For a thoughtful discussion of communal forms of common sense and variants of local knowledge that provides resources for those seeking to unveil the most pernicious assumptions current in contemporary bioethics research, see Geertz C. , Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology (New York: Basic Books, 1983).

See Barber , supra note 5, at 488–89.

For a thoughtful scholarly analysis that incorporates discussions of race, ethnicity, and class within an exploration of minority access to health care, see Watson S.D. , “Minority Access and Health Reform: A Civil Right to Health Care,” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 22 (1994): 127–37.

Bellah R.N. , Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (New York: Harper & Row, 1985).

Outka G. , “Social Justice and Equal Access to Health Care,” Journal of Religious Ethics, 2 (1974): At 28.