Ethical Issues in Women's Healthcare Practice and Policy

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.

Chapter 1. Women's Health Care through a Feminist Ethics Lens
Lori d'Agincourt-Canning & Carolyn Ells

SECTION I. LOCATIONS, MIGRATIONS AND ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE

Chapter 2. Indigenous Women, Health
Charlotte Loppie & Alexandra Kent

Chapter 3. Caring for Refugees, New Immigrants, and Uninsured Women: Social Responsibility and Access to Healthcare

Chapter 4. Rural Women: Place, Community, and Accessing Healthcare
Christy Simpson & Fiona MacDonald

SECTION II. NEW AND EMERGING THEMES

Chapter 5. Drivers and Dilemmas of Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery
Dorothy Shaw & Nicole Todd

Chapter 6. Ethical Issues in the Care and Support of Women Living with HIV
Ruby Shanker, Angela Underhill, Valerie Nicholson, Logan Kennedy, Denise Jaworsky, & Mona Loutfy

Chapter 7. Ethical issues in healthcare for women in the context of violence

Chapter 8. Sex Work, Ethics, and Health Care

Chapter 9. Primary Health Care for Queer Women and Trans People: Confronting Heterosexism and Cissexism
Erin Fredericks & Kelly Baker

SECTION III. REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE

Chapter 10. The Moral Agency of Abortion Providers: Conscientious Provision, Dangertalk, and the Lived Experience of Doing Stigmatized Care
Lisa Harris

Chapter 11. Perinatal Mental Health: The Lens of Relational Ethics.
Lori d'Agincourt-Canning & Deirdre Ryan

Chapter 12. Technology and the Ethical Practice of Reproductive Care: A
Woman-Centred Lens
Laura Sturgill, Sara Shields, & Lucy Candib

Chapter 13. Women with Disabilities: Ethics of Access and Accommodation for Infertility Care
Leslie Francis, Anita Silvers, & Brittany Badesch

Chapter 14. Research with Pregnant Women: A Feminist Challenge
Margaret Olivia Little, Marisha Wickremsinhe, Elana Jaffe, & Anne Drapkin Lyerly