Les approches féministes en bioéthique

Les approches féministes en bioéthique permettent de mettre l'accent sur des réalités souvent laissées pour compte dans les discussions officielles. Une sensibilité particulière aux situations d'oppression et aux inégalités sociales ouvre la voie à des préoccupations qui élargissent les champs d'intérêt de la bioéthique et en questionnent les prises de position tant dans le domaine médical que social. La bioéthique féministe cherche à offrir des alternatives participatives là où règne souvent une hiérarchisation désengageante et dominatrice.The feminist approaches in bioethics allow to emphasize realities often overlooked in official discussions. A particular sensitivity to oppression and social inequalities paves the way to new preoccupations. These latter widen the scope of interest in bioethics and question the positions adopted both in the medical and social domains. A feminist perspective in bioethics offers thus alternatives in a field predominated by a disengaging hierarchy

Voltaire and the Cowboy: The Letters of Thurman Arnold

Who was Thurman Arnold? A flamboyant character from Laramie, Wyoming, who first achieved national prominence in the late 1930s when, at that time a professor at the Yale Law School, he published his brilliant and provocative The Folklore of Capitalism. A man equally at home in the world of action and the world of ideas, who went on to become, successively, Franklin D. Roosevelt\u27s man in charge of trust-busting, a judge on a federal circuit court of appeal and senior partner in a firm of corporation lawyers in Washington but did not cease stirring people up by public speeches, articles in learned journals and letters to newspapers. A true and lifelong son of the West who was once aptly described as a cross between Voltaire and the cowboy, with the cowboy predominating (p. vix). And how did Professor Gressley, a respected historian of the West, come to collect and edit these many-faceted letters? Because he was able to induce Arnold, the boy from Laramie, to give his papers to the Archives of the University of Wyoming, which has its seat at Laramie. Feeling that it is in his letters that the real Thurman Arnold comes closest to being revealed (p. xi), he himself undertook the task of selecting from over 17,000 of them those that to him seemed the most revealing. To them he added a long and perspective-giving Introduction that sheds a good deal of light on this fascinating man

Voltaire and the Cowboy: The Letters of Thurman Arnold

Who was Thurman Arnold? A flamboyant character from Laramie, Wyoming, who first achieved national prominence in the late 1930s when, at that time a professor at the Yale Law School, he published his brilliant and provocative The Folklore of Capitalism. A man equally at home in the world of action and the world of ideas, who went on to become, successively, Franklin D. Roosevelt\u27s man in charge of trust-busting, a judge on a federal circuit court of appeal and senior partner in a firm of corporation lawyers in Washington but did not cease stirring people up by public speeches, articles in learned journals and letters to newspapers. A true and lifelong son of the West who was once aptly described as a cross between Voltaire and the cowboy, with the cowboy predominating (p. vix). And how did Professor Gressley, a respected historian of the West, come to collect and edit these many-faceted letters? Because he was able to induce Arnold, the boy from Laramie, to give his papers to the Archives of the University of Wyoming, which has its seat at Laramie. Feeling that it is in his letters that the real Thurman Arnold comes closest to being revealed (p. xi), he himself undertook the task of selecting from over 17,000 of them those that to him seemed the most revealing. To them he added a long and perspective-giving Introduction that sheds a good deal of light on this fascinating man

A Feminist Exploration of Issues around Assisted Death

Although a great deal of public attention has recently been focused on issues around assisted death remarkably little of it has come from an explicitly feminist perspective. This is a serious omission at a time when legislators are feeling pressure to review and perhaps revise existing policies on assisted death, and when the policies they contemplate may have a significant negative and disproportionate impact on women. We think it is essential that there be some discussion of these issues from an explicitly feminist perspective in order to ensure that concerns about the oppression of women become part of the public debate in this controversial field