Medical ethics and feminist ethics are both comparatively new disciplines. In this study, the author explores the relationship between them and suggests their implications for the structures of medical care delivery and the allocation of health care resources. It also examines controversial subjects such as abortion, and surrogate motherhood.
Medical ethics and feminist ethics are both comparatively new disciplines. In this study, the author explores the relationship between them and sugges...
Examines the real world of women's health status and health-care delivery in different countries, and the assumptions behind the dominant medical model of solving problems without regard to social conditions. This book asks what feminist health-care ethics looks like if we start with women's experiences and concerns.
Examines the real world of women's health status and health-care delivery in different countries, and the assumptions behind the dominant medical mode...
David Braybrooke is one of the most important figures in North American philosophy. His work in political philosophy is both prolific and significant and he has made a number of contributions to the philosophical corpus with books on topics as diverse as utilitarianism, natural law, and moral objectives. Engaged Philosophy is a collection of original essays written in honour of Braybrooke by some of his colleagues and students at Halifax's Dalhousie University.
The collection covers ideas and themes introduced by Braybrooke in his work and a wide range of Braybrooke's interests,...
David Braybrooke is one of the most important figures in North American philosophy. His work in political philosophy is both prolific and significa...
Adam Smith is popularly regarded as the ideological forefather of laissez-faire capitalism, while Rousseau is seen as the passionate advocate of the life of virtue in small, harmonious communities and as a sharp critic of the ills of commercial society. But, in fact, Smith had many of the same worries about commercial society that Rousseau did and was strongly influenced by his critique.
In this first book-length comparative study of these leading eighteenth-century thinkers, Dennis Rasmussen highlights Smith's sympathy with Rousseau's concerns and analyzes in depth the ways in which...
Adam Smith is popularly regarded as the ideological forefather of laissez-faire capitalism, while Rousseau is seen as the passionate advocate of th...
