The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics
ISBN: 9781003016885
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics is an outstanding resource for anyone with an interest in feminist bioethics, with chapters covering topics from justice and power to the climate crisis. Comprising forty-two chapters by emerging and established scholars, the volume is divided into six parts:

I Foundations of feminist bioethics

II Identity and identifications

III Science, technology and research

IV Health and social care

V Reproduction and making families

VI Widening the scope of feminist bioethics

The volume is essential reading for anyone with an interest in bioethics or feminist philosophy, and will prove an invaluable resource for scholars, teachers and advanced students

Chapters 2, 22, and 30 of this book will soon be freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license at www.taylorfrancis.com


Wendy A. Rogers is Distinguished Professor of Clinical Ethics at Macquarie University, Australia. She publishes widely in medical and bioethics journals, is co-editor of Vulnerability: New Essays in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy (2014) and is a founding member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics .

Jackie Leach Scully is Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Disability Innovation Institute, University of New South Wales in Australia. She is co-editor of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics , author of Disability Bioethics: Moral Bodies, Moral Difference (2008), and co-editor of Feminist Bioethics: At the Center, On the Margins (2011).

Stacy M. Carter is the Founding Director of the Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values (ACHEEV) at the University of Wollongong in Australia, a center for deliberative and values-based research in health. Her background is in public health, applied ethics and social science. She is a chief investigator on multiple funded projects, and works particularly on screening and diagnosis, vaccine refusal and artificial intelligence in healthcare.

Vikki A. Entwistle is Professor of Health Services Research and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore.

Catherine Mills is Professor of Bioethics at Monash University in Australia. Her research addresses ethical issues in human reproduction; she also has expertise in feminist philosophy and aspects of Continental philosophy. She is the author of Biopolitics (2018), Futures of Reproduction (2011) and The Philosophy of Agamben (2008), as well as numerous articles in her areas of research.

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