Ethical issues in women’s healthcare : practice and policy

Description

This is an edited collection exploring ethical issues in women’s health care. It includes topics related to reproduction, but goes beyond this familiar theme to address clinical and social issues largely unrecognized in the bioethics literature. These include ethical issues related to the care of Indigenous women, uninsured refugees and immigrants, rural women, women engaged in sex work, and those with HIV and perinatal mental health disorders. The collection analyzes the complex ways in which practice, policy, and institutional structures intersect and raise ethical issues affecting women’s a