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Volume 328:361 February 4, 1993 Number 5
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Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics

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Edited by Helen Bequaert Holmes and Laura M. Purdy. 315 pp. Bloomington, Ind., Indiana University Press, 1992. $39.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). ISBN 0-253-20695-2.

As the academic and professional worlds sit up and listen to the feminist voice, many are asking themselves: What is feminism? And what does it offer? Feminism, including feminism in medical ethics, could be the collective voice of a relatively oppressed subculture. As such, it would be the voice of an interest group. Or it could be the collective voice of woman as woman. As such, it would provide answers to the ancient and ever-mysterious question of what it means to be a woman as distinct from a man. Finally, it could be an approach to moral arguments. This would . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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