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Self-Trust and Reproductive Autonomy (Basic Bioethics) (Basic Bioethics Series) by Carolyn McLeod is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The power of new medical technologies, the cultural authority of physicians, and the gendered power dynamics of many patient-physician relationships can all inhibit women?s reproductive freedom. Often these factors interfere with women?s ability to trust themselves to choose and act in ways that are consistent with their own goals and values. In this book Carolyn McLeod introduces to the reproductive ethics literature the idea that in reproductive health care women?s self-trust can be undermined in ways that threaten their autonomy. Understanding the importance of self-trust for autonomy, McLeod argues, is crucial to understanding the limits on women?s reproductive freedom.McLeod brings feminist insights in philosophical moral psychology to reproductive ethics, and to health-care ethics more broadly. She identifies the social environments in which self-trust is formed and encouraged. She also shows how women?s experiences of reproductive health care can enrich our understanding of

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Author

Carolyn McLeod

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262279598

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Technology, Philosophy