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Gender, ageing, and injustice: social and political contexts of bioethics
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Dodds, SM, Gender, ageing, and injustice: social and political contexts of bioethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, 31, (5) pp. 295-298. ISSN 0306-6800 (2005) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2005 BMJ Publishing
DOI: doi:10.1136/jme.2003.006726
Abstract
There has been considerable work in bioethics addressing injustice and gender oppression in the provision
of healthcare services, in the interaction between client and healthcare professional, and in allocation of
healthcare services within a particular hospital or health service. There remain several sites of continued
injustice that can only be addressed adequately from a broader analytical perspective, one that attends to
the social and political contexts framing healthcare policy and practice. Feminist bioethicists have a strong
track record in providing this kind of analysis. Using current Australian aged care and welfare policy this
paper demonstrates some of the ways in which issues of gender, age, and social inequity shape bioethical
debate, policy, and practice in the areas of aged care and welfare provision. The author develops an
argument that demonstrates the gender injustice underlying health care and welfare policy. This argument
recognises the inevitability of human dependency relations, and questions the adequacy of current political
theories to address the requirements for full and equal citizenship. The author shows that an adequate
analysis of the ethics of aged healthcare depends on sufficient consideration of the social and political
context within which healthcare policy is framed and an adequate understanding of human dependency.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Philosophy and Religious Studies |
Research Group: | Applied ethics |
Research Field: | Bioethics |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in philosophy and religious studies |
UTAS Author: | Dodds, SM (Professor Susan Dodds) |
ID Code: | 58772 |
Year Published: | 2005 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 6 |
Deposited By: | Philosophy |
Deposited On: | 2009-10-27 |
Last Modified: | 2012-11-30 |
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