Differentiated access to citizenship in feminist bioethics
A review of criticisms regarding the ideals of impartiality and absolute autonomy in the predominant bioethics
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Bioethics, Feminism, Citizenship, DifferenceAbstract
Since the late sixties, feminist claims, alongside those of other social movements, advocating for differentiated access to citizenship have gradually displaced traditional demands for the extension of a universal citizenship without distinctions. This paper aims to explore specifically the approaches of feminist bioethics regarding differentiated access to citizenship in the fields of health and medical ethics. Through a bibliographic review within this theoretical framework, this paper reconstructs these claims from criticisms formulated by feminist bioethics against two ideals assumed by the predominant bioethical framework: impartiality and absolute autonomy. The analysis of their approaches reveals the importance of promoting, in the fields of health and medical ethics, egalitarian politics of difference based on the participatory parity of agents seen as concrete and interrelated individuals.
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