Feminist Bioethics

This list of topical resources is collated and maintained by the Bioethics Research Library of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, as part of a growing collection intended to help beginning scholars and researchers explore bioethics.

Bioethics Research Library staff have developed information resources to support persons interested in feminism and bioethics. The following links will retrieve citations from the library’s databases on selected topics. Many citations will have links to tables of contents, abstracts, or even full text. Use your web browser to save the citation lists for personal use.

Overview: “Feminist Ethics” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Information from Bioethics Research Library Databases

Formats

  • Books (since 1995)
Topics
  • Abortion
  • Animal Rights
  • Bioethics
  • Biology
  • Contraception
  • Death and Dying
  • Environmental Ethics
  • Ethic of Care
    • Carol Gilligan
  • Genetics (from the GenETHX database)
  • Health Care for Women
  • International Issues
  • Law
  • Mental Health
  • Occupational Health
  • Organ and Tissue Transplantation
  • Patient Relationships
  • Philosophical Ethics
  • Population
  • Religion
  • Reproductive Issues
  • Research on Women
  • Science and Society

National Library of Medicine Databases

In the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s PubMed database, enter the following search strategy in the query box:

(feminism [mh] AND (empathy [mh] OR ethics [mh:noexp] OR ethics, professional [mh] OR ethics, medical [mh] OR bioethics))

In the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s Book Catalog database, enter the following search strategy in the query box:

(feminism [mh] AND (empathy [mh] OR ethics [mh:noexp] OR ethics, professional [mh] OR ethics, medical [mh] OR bioethics)) AND (ethics OR KIE))

Journals