Linking Visions - (Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy) by Anne Donchin & Susan Dodds (Paperback)

About the Book

This collection brings together fourteen contributions by authors from around the globe. Each of the contributions engages with questions about how local and global bioethical issues are made to be comparable, in the hope of redressing basic needs and demands for justice. Thes...

Book Synopsis

This collection brings together fourteen contributions by authors from around the globe. Each of the contributions engages with questions about how local and global bioethical issues are made to be comparable, in the hope of redressing basic needs and demands for justice. These works demonstrate the significant conceptual contributions that can be made through feminists' attention to debates in a range of interrelated fields, especially as they formulate appropriate responses to developments in medical technology, global economics, population shifts, and poverty.

Review Quotes

Another FAB feast! This collection of thought-provoking essays advances feminist bioethics-and all bioethics. Its gems will be building blocks for further research and a wonderful resource for teaching.

In this collection, the editors have brought together an impressive range of international voices addressing the connections among feminism, human rights, and global development. The result is a fascinating and rigorous examination of the common ground between these three fundamental areas of bioethics. This collection demonstrates the significant contributions that feminist analysis can make to questions of human rights and development, and broadens the debate in important ways. Feminist ethics has much to offer, and much to gain from, dialogues of this nature.

The collection is thought provoking....and well worth reading....It is a valuable contribution in the battle for a socially just world.

About the Author

Rosemarie Tong is Distinguished Professor of Health Care Ethics and director for professional and applied ethics at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She is also adjunct professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Administration and adjunct professor in the doctoral program in public policy.
Anne Donchin is professor emerita of philosophy at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. She is also adjunct professor of women's studies, professor of philanthropic studies, and adjunct professor of medical humanities.
Susan Dodds is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Wollongong in Australia.