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      Feminist bioethics and psychiatry.

      The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
      Bioethics, Female, Feminism, Humans, Psychiatry, Stress, Psychological

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          Feminist bioethics is a relatively new field, the major works in which only started to appear in the late 1980s. At first feminist bioethicists focused mainly on issues of particular concern to women such as reproduction. Recently, papers have begun to appear that show that a feminist analysis can be brought to bear on any subject traditional bioethics discusses. So far, however, feminist bioethics has not been brought to bear on psychiatry. There have been feminist critiques of psychiatry and feminist discussions of certain diagnostic categories that disproportionately affect women, but these are concerned with women's issues within psychiatry and how psychiatry has been used to oppress women. Certainly these are important, but what has been missing is a discussion of psychiatry in the sense that feminist bioethics suggests a general critique of psychiatry and the rethinking of the practice of psychiatry, regardless of whether the specific instances involved are women's issues. In this paper I look at what such a feminist bioethical intervention into psychiatry would look like.

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          11484134
          10.1076/jmep.26.4.431.3008

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          Bioethics,Female,Feminism,Humans,Psychiatry,Stress, Psychological
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          Bioethics, Female, Feminism, Humans, Psychiatry, Stress, Psychological

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