Feminism, Law, and Bioethics

Feminism, law, and bioethics.

Feminist legal theory provides a healthy skepticism toward legal doctrine and insists that we reexamine even formally gender-neutral rules to uncover problematic assumptions behind them. The article first outlines feminist legal theory from the perspectives of liberal, cultural, and radical feminism. Examples of how each theory influences legal practice, case law, and legislation are highlighte...

Law and bioethics.

Human dignity in bioethics and law.

Moral discourse, bioethics, and the law.

Conjoined twins: bioethics, medicine and the law.

VIEWPOINT Conjoined twins are fused twins resulting from incomplete division of a single blastocyst, 13 to16 days post fertilization (1). Complete division of a human zygote within seven days of fertilization yields identical monozygotic twins (1). Fused body components, overlapping visceral components and impaired organogenesis characterize this anomaly (1–5). Classification of conjoined twins...