Book Review: Feminism & Bioethics: Beyond Reproduction

See, for example, Rothenberg K.H. Thomson E.J. , eds., Women and Prenatal Testing: Facing the Challenges of Genetic Technology (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994); Overall C. , Ethics and Human Reproduction (Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1987); Rothman B.K. , The Tentative Pregnancy: Prenatal Diagnosis and the Future of Motherhood (New York: Viking, 1986); Corea G. , The Mother Machine: Reproductive Technologies from Artificial Insemination to Artificial Wombs (New York: Harper & Row, 1985); Stanworth M. , ed., Reproductive Technologies: Gender, Motherhood and Medicine (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987); Callahan J. , ed., Reproduction, Ethics and the Law: Feminist Perspectives (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995); Daniels C.R. , At Women's Expense: State Power and the Politics of Fetal Rights (Cambridge-Harvard University Press, 1993); Boling P. , ed., Expecting Trouble: Surrogacy, Fetal Abuse & New Reproductive Technologies (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995); Arditti R. , eds., Test-Tube Women: What Future for Motherhood (Boston: Pandora, 1984); Holmes H.B. , ed., Issues in Reproductive Technology I: An Anthology (New York: Garland, 1992); Holmes H.B. , eds., The Custom-Made Child?—Women-Centered Perspectives (Clifton: Humana, 1981); Chadwick R.F. , ed., Ethics, Reproduction and Genetic Control (London: Routledge, rev. ed., 1992); Raymond J.G. , Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the Battle Over Women's freedom (New York: Harper Collins, 1993); Sen G. Snow R.C. , eds., Power and Decision: The Social Control of Reproduction (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1994); Rowland R. , Living Laboratories: Women and Reproductive Technologies (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992); and Spallone P. Steinberg D.I. , eds., Made to Order: The Myth of Reproductive and Genetic Progress (New York: Pergamon, 1987).

Tong R. , Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997); Mahowald M.B. , Women and Children in Health Care: An Unequal Majority (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993); Holmes H.B. Purdy L.M. , eds., Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992); Sherwin S. , No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics and Health Care (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992); Dula A. Goering S. , eds., “It Just Ain't Fair”: The Ethics of Health Care for African Americans (Westport: Praeger, 1994); White E.C. , ed., The Black Women's Health Book: Speaking for Ourselves (Seattle: Seal Press, 1990); Todd A.D. , Intimate Adversaries: Cultural Conflict Between Doctors and Women Patients (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989); Fisher S. , In the Patient's Best Interest: Women and the Politics of Medical Decisions (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1986); and Darvall L. , Medicine, Law and Social Change: The Impact of Bioethics, Feminism and Bights Movements on Medical Decision-Making (Brookfield: Dartmouth Press, 1993).

The endnotes to Susan Wolf's introductory essay provide an outstanding source for bioethical scholars and practitioners. See Wolf S.M. , “Introduction: Gender and Feminism in Bioethics,” in Wolf S.M. , ed., Feminism & Bioethics: Beyond Reproduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996): At 33–43.

Sherwin S. , “Feminism and Bioethics,” in Wolf , ed., supra note 3, at 47–66; Tong R. , “Feminist Approaches to Bioethics,” in Wolf , ed., supra note 3, at 67–94; and Mahowald M.B. , “On Treatment of Myopia: Feminist Standpoint Theory and Bioethics,” in Wolf , ed., supra note 3, at 95–115. These three articles may seem repetitive to the schooled feminist reader who has read their books and/or other writings and has a grounding in feminist theory and bioethics.

Merton V. , “Ethical Obstacles to Participation of Women in Biomedical Research,” in Wolf , ed., supra note 3, at 216–51; and Faden R. Kass N. McGraw D. , “Women as Vessels and Vectors: Lessons from the HIV Epidemic,” in Wolf , ed., supra note 3, at 252–81.

Smith J.F. , “Communicative Ethics in Medicine: The Physician-Patient Relationship,” in Wolf , ed., supra note 3, at 184–215.

Roberts D.E. , “Reconstructing the Patient: Starting with Women of Color,” in Wolf , ed., supra note 3, at 116–43; and Dresser R. , “What Bioethics Can Learn from the Women's Health Movement,” in Wolf , ed., supra note 3, at 144–59. Actually, both articles are in Part I, but they seem to fit better here in my review.

Asch A. Geller G. , “Feminism, Bioethics, and Genetics,” in Wolf , ed., supra note 3, at 318–50.

Nelson H.L. Nelson J.L. , “Justice in the Allocation of Health Care Resources: A Feminist Account,” in Wolf , ed., supra note 3, at 351–70.

Wolf S.M. , “Gender, Feminism, and Death: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia,” in Wolf , ed., supra note 3, at 282–317.

Purdy L.M. , “A Feminist View of Health,” in Wolf , ed., supra note 3, at 163–83.

See, for example, Roberts D.E. , “Unshackling Black Motherhood,” Michigan Law Review, 95 (1997): 938–64; Roberts D.E. , “Race and the New Reproduction,” Hastings Law Journal, 47 (1996): 935–94; Roberts D.E. , “Racism and Patriarchy in the Meaning of Motherhood,” American University Journal of Gender and the Law, 1 (1993): 1–38; and Roberts D.E. , “Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy,” Harvard Law Review, 104 (1991): 1419–82.

See Dresser , supra note 7; and Boston Women's Health Book Collective, The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book By and For Women (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992).

Purdy , supra note 11, at 177.

See Smith , supra note 6.

See Merton , supra note 5.

See Faden Kass McGraw , supra note 5.

See id. at 260.

See Wolf , supra note 10.

Washington v. Glucksberg, 117 S. Ct. 37 (1996) (granting cert.); and Quill v. Vacco, 117 S. Ct. 36 (1996) (granting cert.).

See Asch Geller , supra note 8, at 342.

See Nelson Nelson , supra note 9.