Womanist Bioethics - Wylin D. Wilson

Womanist Bioethics

Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2025
New York University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-1720-7 (ISBN)
92,25 inkl. MwSt
Offers Bioethics a bold approach to redress its failing of Black women

Black people, and especially Black women, suffer and die from diseases at much higher rates than their white counterparts. The vast majority of these health disparities are not attributed to behavioral differences or biology, but to the pervasive devaluation of Black bodies.

Womanist Bioethics addresses this crisis from a bioethical standpoint. It offers a critique of mainstream bioethics as having embraced the perspective of its mainly white, male progenitors, limiting the extent to which it is positioned to engage the issues that particularly affect vulnerable populations. This book makes the provocative but essential case that because African American women– across almost every health indicator– fare worse than others. We must not only include, but center, Black women’s experiences and voices in bioethics discourse and practice.

To this end, Womanist Bioethics develops the first specifically womanist form of bioethics, focused on the diverse vulnerabilities and multiple oppressions that women of color face. This innovative womanist bioethics is grounded in the Black Christian prophetic tradition, based on the ideas that God does not condone oppression and that it is imperative to defend those who are vulnerable. It also draws on womanist theology and Black liberation theology, which take similar stances. At its core, the volume offers a new, broad-based approach to bioethics that is meant as a corrective to mainstream bioethics’ privileging of white, particularly male, experiences, and it outlines ways in which hospitals, churches, and the larger community can better respond to the healthcare needs of Black women.

Wylin D. Wilson is Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School. She is the author of Economic Ethics and the Black Church.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.1.2025
Reihe/Serie Religion and Social Transformation
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-4798-1720-1 / 1479817201
ISBN-13 978-1-4798-1720-7 / 9781479817207
Zustand Neuware
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