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Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health

Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health

Wilson, Wylin D.

Paperback

Series: Religion and Social Transformation, Book 18

Black American StudiesHistory & Philosophy of ScienceWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1479817236
ISBN13: 9781479817238
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Jan 28 2025
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

Finalist, 2025 INDIES Book of the Year Award: Health, given by Foreword Reviews

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.

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