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by D'Agincourt-Canning (Editor)
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 access to health care. Contributors comprise an interdisciplinary group of practitioners including physicians, clinical ethicists, and nurses, as well academic scholars.
Author Biography
Lori d'Agincourt-Canning, PhD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia. Her primary areas of research include clinical ethics, feminist theory, health care access, and disparity. Her recent articles can be found in publications such as The Journal of Clinical Ethics, The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics (2009), HEC Forum and Health Law in Canada. Carolyn Ells, RRT PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill University, where she also has appointments in the Division of Experimental Medicine and Departments of Family Medicine and Social Studies of Medicine. She is a Research Associate at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, in Montreal, Canada. Her research addresses feminist ethical theory, ethical questions in practices and policies of health care delivery, and research ethics policy.
