Ethical Issues in Women's Healthcare

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.

Lori d'Agincourt-Canning & Carolyn Ells: Chapter 1. Women's Health Care through a Feminist Ethics Lens
SECTION I. LOCATIONS, MIGRATIONS AND ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE
Charlotte Loppie & Alexandra Kent: Chapter 2. Indigenous Women, Health, and Healthcare
Paul Caulford and Sumathy Rahunathan: Chapter 3. Caring for Refugees, New Immigrants, and Uninsured Women: Social Responsibility and Access to Healthcare
Christy Simpson & Fiona McDonald: Chapter 4. Rural Women: Place, Community, and Accessing Healthcare
SECTION II. NEW AND EMERGING THEMES
Dorothy Shaw & Nicole Todd: Chapter 5. Drivers and Dilemmas of Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery
Ruby Rajendra Shanker, Angela Underhill, Valerie Nicholson, Logan Kennedy, Denise Jaworsky, & Mona Loutfy: Chapter 6. Ethical Issues in the Care and Support of Women Living with HIV
Rochelle Einboden & Colleen Varcoe: Chapter 7. Ethical issues in Healthcare for Women in the Context of Violence
Victoria Bungay & Lauren Casey: Chapter 8. Sex Work, Ethics, and Healthcare
Erin Fredericks & Kelly Baker: Chapter 9. Primary Healthcare for Queer Women and Trans People: Confronting Heterosexism and Cissexism
SECTION III. REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE
Lisa Harris: Chapter 10. The Moral Agency of Abortion Providers: Conscientious Provision, Dangertalk, and the Lived Experience of Doing Stigmatized Work
Lori d'Agincourt-Canning & Deirdre Ryan: Chapter 11. Perinatal Mental Health: The Lens of Relational Ethics
Laura A. Sturgill, Sara G. Shields, & Lucy M. Candib: Chapter 12. Technology and the Ethical Practice of Reproductive Care: A Woman-Centered Lens
Leslie Francis, Anita Silvers, & Brittany Badesch: Chapter 13. Women with Disabilities: Ethics of Access and Accommodation for Infertility Care
Margaret Olivia Little, Marisha N. Wickremsinhe, Elana Jaffe, & Anne Drapkin Lyerly: Chapter 14. Research with Pregnant Women: A Feminist Challenge