Integrating intersectionality into autonomy: Reflections on feminist bioethics and egg freezing
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چکیده
The field of bioethics struggles with the complexity diversity and power differences. ‘Intersectionality in Clinical Medicine: Need for a Conceptual Framework’ (Wilson et al., 2019) its accompanying commentaries, though inventive thought-provoking, overlook key principles biomedical ethics. In this paper, I reflect on debate consider how an intersectional approach could inform normative theorizing. Traditional principlist reasoning leads to serious problems when we are trying deal complexities intersectionality, is especially true if look at principle autonomy. develop idea that intersectionality more line feminist inquiry attempts reconfigure However, critiques autonomy often remain less than thoroughly engaged intersectionality. case social egg freezing used further support claim. By foregrounding existing relational claims debate, complicated justice concerns reproduction better brought into focus.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: DiGeSt. Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2593-0281', '2593-0273']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21825/digest.v7i2.16532