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Book Review: Feminism & Bioethics: Beyond Reproduction
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WolfSusan M., ed., Feminism & Bioethics: Beyond Reproduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996): 398 pp., ISBN 0-19-508568-x (cloth), $50.00. To order call 1-800-451-7556.
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See, for example, Rothenberg, K.H. Thomson, E.J., eds., Women and Prenatal Testing: Facing the Challenges of Genetic Technology (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994); Overall, C., Ethics and Human Reproduction (Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1987); Rothman, B.K., The Tentative Pregnancy: Prenatal Diagnosis and the Future of Motherhood (New York: Viking, 1986); Corea, G., The Mother Machine: Reproductive Technologies from Artificial Insemination to Artificial Wombs (New York: Harper & Row, 1985); Stanworth, M., ed., Reproductive Technologies: Gender, Motherhood and Medicine (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987); Callahan, J., ed., Reproduction, Ethics and the Law: Feminist Perspectives (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995); Daniels, C.R., At Women's Expense: State Power and the Politics of Fetal Rights (Cambridge-Harvard University Press, 1993); Boling, P., ed., Expecting Trouble: Surrogacy, Fetal Abuse & New Reproductive Technologies (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995); Arditti, R. et al. , eds., Test-Tube Women: What Future for Motherhood (Boston: Pandora, 1984); Holmes, H.B., ed., Issues in Reproductive Technology I: An Anthology (New York: Garland, 1992); Holmes, H.B. et al. , eds., The Custom-Made Child?—Women-Centered Perspectives (Clifton: Humana, 1981); Chadwick, R.F., ed., Ethics, Reproduction and Genetic Control (London: Routledge, rev. ed., 1992); Raymond, J.G., Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the Battle Over Women's freedom (New York: Harper Collins, 1993); Sen, G. Snow, R.C., eds., Power and Decision: The Social Control of Reproduction (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1994); Rowland, R., Living Laboratories: Women and Reproductive Technologies (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992); and Spallone, P. Steinberg, D.I., eds., Made to Order: The Myth of Reproductive and Genetic Progress (New York: Pergamon, 1987).Google Scholar
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The endnotes to Susan Wolf's introductory essay provide an outstanding source for bioethical scholars and practitioners. See Wolf, S.M., “Introduction: Gender and Feminism in Bioethics,” in Wolf, S.M., ed., Feminism & Bioethics: Beyond Reproduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996): At 33–43.Google Scholar
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