Womanist Ethics as a Contribution to Bioethics
This essay argues that womanism, a social theory focused on the embodied lives of Black women, can be useful to bioethicists as they consider health care ethics during a pandemic—and beyond. A general social justice-oriented ethical framework is helpful to begin a conversation on pandemic ethics, bu...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Wiley
2022
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The Hastings Center report
Année: 2022, Volume: 52, Pages: 69-71 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Black Lives Matter (mouvement)
B Poverty B pandemic ethics B Womanism B Bioethics B Womanist B Black women's health |
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| Résumé: | This essay argues that womanism, a social theory focused on the embodied lives of Black women, can be useful to bioethicists as they consider health care ethics during a pandemic—and beyond. A general social justice-oriented ethical framework is helpful to begin a conversation on pandemic ethics, but it does not directly lead to the kind of on-the-margins-of-society framework that is necessary to increase health equity and justice. With particular concern for poor Black women, I discuss three main reasons that such an ethics framework needs to incorporate womanist ethics: the feminization of poverty, lack of access to high-quality health care, and rape and other historical violence against Black women. I conclude by proposing that an understanding of womanism as a correlative to the Black Lives Matter clarion call can create an ethical narrative in bioethics that can exist beyond times of pandemic. |
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| ISSN: | 1552-146X |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1002/hast.1376 |