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Feminist bioethics and psychiatry
1Department of Philosophy, University of Portland, Portland, OR 97202, USA. martinn@up.edu.
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
|August 3, 2001
Summary
This paper explores a feminist bioethical approach to psychiatry, moving beyond women's issues to a broader critique. It examines how feminist bioethics can reshape psychiatric theory and practice for all.
Area of Science:
- Bioethics
- Feminist Theory
- Psychiatry
Background:
- Feminist bioethics emerged in the late 1980s, initially focusing on women's reproductive health.
- Recent scholarship applies feminist analysis to broader bioethical topics.
- However, feminist bioethics has yet to be comprehensively applied to psychiatry.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the potential of a feminist bioethical intervention in psychiatry.
- To extend feminist analysis beyond women-specific issues within psychiatry.
- To propose a general critique and rethinking of psychiatric practice through a feminist bioethical lens.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis of feminist bioethics and psychiatric practice.
- Review of existing feminist critiques of psychiatry.
- Development of a framework for feminist bioethical engagement with psychiatry.
Main Results:
- Identifies a gap in current scholarship regarding a general feminist bioethical critique of psychiatry.
- Distinguishes between feminist critiques focused on women's issues and a broader feminist bioethical approach.
- Outlines the potential implications of such an intervention for psychiatric theory and practice.
Conclusions:
- A comprehensive feminist bioethical approach can offer a novel critique of psychiatry.
- This approach necessitates rethinking psychiatric practices irrespective of gender-specific concerns.
- Such an intervention promises to enrich both feminist bioethics and psychiatric discourse.