Linking Visions

A thought provoking examination of the interrelationship between and among feminist bioethics, human rights, and global development, Linking Visions addresses global concerns about oppression in the context of health care, medical research, and population health. Reflecting the ever-expanding diversity and comprehensiveness of feminist bioethics, contributors examine such topics as reproductive rights of women in India, HIV/AIDs policies, patenting genetic material, the language of human rights, and consequences of the 'Global Gag Rule'. Linking Visions demonstrates the far-reaching effects of feminism on global bioethics, highlighting and celebrating the reality that feminist work is no longer relegated solely to the realm of reproductive, sexual, or maternal ethics.

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.

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.