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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall-Winter 1996 Oct 1996

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall-Winter 1996

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 1996 Jul 1996

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 1996

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Feminism, Law, And Bioethics, Karen H. Rothenberg Jan 1996

Feminism, Law, And Bioethics, Karen H. Rothenberg

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Feminist legal theory provides a healthy skepticism toward legal doctrine and insists that we reexamine even formally gender-neutral rules to uncover problematic assumptions behind them. The article first outlines feminist legal theory from the perspectives of liberal, cultural, and radical feminism. Examples of how each theory influences legal practice, case law, and legislation are highlighted. Each perspective is then applied to a contemporary bioethical issue, egg donation. Following a brief discussion of the common themes shared by feminist jurisprudence, the article incorporates a narrative reflecting on the integration of the common feminist themes in the context of the passage of …


Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 1996 Jan 1996

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Winter 1996

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

No abstract provided.