Women’s Healthcare Through a Feminist Ethics Lens

Ethical Issues in Women's Healthcare ◽

10.1093/med/9780190851361.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

Lori d’Agincourt-Canning ◽

Carolyn Ells

Keyword(s):

Ethical Issues ◽

Healthcare Providers ◽

Moral Life ◽

Sex And Gender ◽

Feminist Ethics ◽

Centered Care ◽

And Gender ◽

Feminist Bioethics

This chapter provides the book’s rationale, reviews themes that are central to the book, and presents an overview of its chapters. The collection aims to bring insights from healthcare providers, clinical ethicists, scholars, and community together as a way of broadening feminist bioethics and being responsive to ethical issues in women’s healthcare. A starting premise is that gender is central to the evaluation of healthcare and healthcare practices. Several feminist themes that are pertinent to the ethics analyses throughout the book are described. These include relational components of moral life, justice and oppression, women-centered care, implications of sex and gender distinctions, and examining issues through an ethics lens. The overview of chapters highlights the specific gaps in the literature each one fills, along with how they fit together as a collection.

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Feasting and Fasting

10.18574/nyu/9781479899333.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Hasia R. Diner ◽

Jonathan Safran Foer

Keyword(s):

Animal Studies ◽

Final Section ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

Food Studies ◽

Religious Studies ◽

Theoretical Issue ◽

Sex And Gender ◽

History Of Religions ◽

History Of ◽

And Gender

This book explores how the making of Judaism and the making of Jewish meals have been intertwined throughout history and in contemporary Jewish practices. It is an invitation not only to delve into the topic but to join in the growing number of conversations and events that consider the intersections between Judaism and food. Seventeen original chapters advance the state of both Jewish studies and religious studies scholarship on food in accessible prose. Insights from recent work in growing subfields such as food studies, sex and gender studies, and animal studies permeate the volume. Encompassing historical, ethnographic, critical theoretical, and history of religions methodologies, the volume introduces readers to historic and ongoing Jewish food practices and helps them engage the charged ethical debates about how our food choices reflect competing Jewish values. The book’s three sections respectively include chronologically arranged historical overviews (first section), essays built around particular foods and theoretical questions (second section), and essays addressing ethical issues (third and final section). The first section provides the historical and textual overview that is necessary to ground any discussion of food and Jewish traditions. The second section provides studies of food and culture from a range of time periods, and each chapter addresses not only a particular food but also a theoretical issue of broader interest in the study of religion. The final section focuses on moral and ethical questions generated by and answered through Jewish engagements with food.

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Integrating the Dimensions of Sex and Gender into Basic Life Sciences Research: Methodologic and Ethical Issues

Gender Medicine ◽

10.1016/s1550-8579(07)80048-9 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

pp. S64-S74 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Anita Holdcroft

Keyword(s):

Ethical Issues ◽

Life Sciences ◽

Sex And Gender ◽

And Gender

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Sex and Gender in Research on Healthcare Workers in Conflict Settings: A Scoping Review

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17124331 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (12) ◽

pp. 4331

Author(s):

Rima R. Habib ◽

Dana A. Halwani ◽

Diana Mikati ◽

Layal Hneiny

Keyword(s):

Occupational Health ◽

Health Outcomes ◽

Scoping Review ◽

Healthcare Workers ◽

Healthcare Providers ◽

Sex And Gender ◽

Conflict Zones ◽

Health Literature ◽

Conflict Settings ◽

And Gender

The occupational health literature has established that sex and gender are associated with all dimensions of the workplace. Sex and/or gender (sex/gender) factors play an important role in shaping the experiences, exposures, and health outcomes of male and female healthcare providers working in war and conflict settings. This study aims to (1) assess how sex/gender is considered in the occupational health literature on healthcare workers in conflict settings, and (2) identify the gaps in incorporating sex/gender concepts in this literature. A scoping review was carried out and nine electronic databases were searched using a comprehensive search strategy. Two reviewers screened the titles/abstracts and full-texts of the studies using specific inclusion and exclusion criteria. Key information was extracted from the studies and four themes were identified. Of 7679 identified records, 47 were included for final review. The findings underlined the harsh working conditions of healthcare workers practicing in conflict zones and showed sex/gender similarities and differences in experiences, exposures and health outcomes. This review revealed a dearth of articles with adequate consideration of sex/gender in the study design. Sex/gender-sensitive research in occupational health is necessary to develop effective occupational health and safety policies to protect men and women healthcare workers in conflict settings.

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Intersex and Transgender People

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199664153.013.002 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Susannah Cornwall

Keyword(s):

Sexual Activity ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

Sex And Gender ◽

Sexual Encounter ◽

Same Sex ◽

Transgender People ◽

Genital Surgery ◽

And Gender

Intersex and transgender are discrete issues and should not be conflated. However, both phenomena, and the experiences of both groups of people, demonstrate the limitations of existing theologies of sexuality which assume stable and binary models of human maleness and femaleness. Sexual theologies for intersex and transgender people must take into account a range of issues, including the reality of variant sex and gender; the question of same-sex relationships; the theological significance of non-penetrative sexual activity; the challenges of unusual genital anatomy; ethical issues surrounding sought and unsought genital surgery; discourses of pathological versus variant embodiment; and questions of vulnerability and safety in sexual encounter. Drawing on liberationist theological goods, this chapter points to the necessity for non-pathologizing theological accounts of variant sex and gender.

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