Feminist and Medical Ethics: Two Different Approaches to Contextual Ethics

Title: Feminist and Medical Ethics: Two Different Approaches to Contextual Ethics
ABP identifier: ABP-W-0014
Creator: Susan Sherwin
Date: 1989
Description: Susan Sherwin's 1989 article compared feminist ethics and medical ethics as contextual approaches while arguing that feminist political analysis changes which contextual features and power relations receive ethical attention.
Intellectual stream: Feminist bioethics
Verification status: Verified
Evidence confidence: High
Historical significance: Provides a late-1980s marker for an emerging feminist critique of conventional medical-ethical analysis, anticipating the broader development of feminist bioethics in the 1990s.
Historical role: Early explicit intervention bringing feminist ethical analysis into sustained conversation with medical ethics.
Open question: Does subsequent citation and disciplinary uptake support retaining this article as the best 1980s Timeline marker for emerging feminist bioethics?