Ethics of Gender-Specific Disease

<p>Our understanding of gender carries significant bioethical implications. An errant account of gender-specific disease can lead to overgeneralizations undergeneralizations and misdiagnoses. It can also lead to problems in the structure of health-care delivery the creation of policy and the development of clinical curricula. </p><p>In this volume Cutter argues that gender-specific disease and related bioethical discourses are philosophically integrative. Gender-specific disease is integrative because the descriptive roles of gender disease and their relation are inextricably tied to their prescriptive roles within frames of reference. An integrative account of gender-specific disease carries ethical implications because our understanding of gender-specific disease is evaluative and our evaluations of gender-specific disease entail judgments concerning the praiseworthiness and blameworthiness of a clinical event. Cutter supports a both/and emphasis on context and integration in relation to gender-specific disease and bioethical analyses. </p><p>While the text mainly focuses on gender-specific diseases that affect women Cutter also includes examples involving men children and members of the LGBT community.</p>