Examines the real world of women's health status and health-care delivery in different countries, and the assumptions behind the dominant medical model of solving problems without regard to social conditions. This book asks what feminist health-care ethics looks like if we start with women's experiences and concerns.

CONTENTS Acknowledgments 1 Introduction Susan Sherwin with Voices from the Network 2 A Relational Approach to Autonomy in Health Care Susan Sherwin 3 Situating Women in the Politics of Health Margaret Lock 4 The Politics of Health: Geneticization Versus Health Promotion Abby Lippman 5 Contested Bodies, Contested Knowledges: Women, Health, and the Politics of Medicalization Kathryn Pauly Morgan 6 Agency, Diversity, and Constraints: Women and Their Physicians, Canada, 1850-1950 Wendy Mitchinson 7 Reflections on the Transfer of "Progress": The Case of Reproduction Maria De Koninck 8 Anomalous Women and Political Strategies for Aging Societies Margaret Lock 9 (Re)fashioning Medicine's Response to Wife Abuse Marylynne Bell and Janet Mosher 10 Reframing Research Involving Humans Francoise Baylis, Jocelyn Downie, and Susan Sherwin References About the Authors Index