The ethics of gender-specific disease /

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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 develo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cutter, Mary Ann Gardell
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Colección:Routledge annals of bioethics ; 11.
Temas:
Medical ethics.
Sex factors in disease.
Health > Sex differences.
Sex Factors
Ethics, Medical
Éthique médicale.
Maladies > Facteurs sexuels.
Santé > Différences entre sexes.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
Health > Sex differences
Medical ethics
Sex factors in disease
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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