@article{1386184,
      recid = {1386184},
      author = {McLeod, Carolyn.},
      title = {Self-trust and reproductive autonomy /},
      publisher = {MIT Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiii, 199 pages).},
      year = {2002},
      abstract = {A study of the importance of self-trust for women's  autonomy in reproductive health. The power of new medical  technologies, the cultural authority of physicians, and the  gendered power dynamics of many patient-physician  relationships can all inhibit women's reproductive freedom.  Often these factors interfere with women's ability to trust  themselves to choose and act in ways that are consistent  with their own goals and values. In this book Carolyn  McLeod introduces to the reproductive ethics literature the  idea that in reproductive health care women's self-trust  can be undermined in ways that threaten their autonomy.  Understanding the importance of self-trust for autonomy,  McLeod argues, is crucial to understanding the limits on  women's reproductive freedom. McLeod brings feminist  insights in philosophical moral psychology to reproductive  ethics, and to health-care ethics more broadly. She  identifies the social environments in which self-trust is  formed and encouraged. She also shows how women's  experiences of reproductive health care can enrich our  understanding of self-trust and autonomy as philosophical  concepts. The book's theoretical components are grounded in  women's concrete experiences. The cases discussed, which  involve miscarriage, infertility treatment, and prenatal  diagnosis, show that what many women feel toward themselves  in reproductive contexts is analogous to what we feel  toward others when we trust or distrust them. McLeod also  discusses what health-care providers can do to minimize the  barriers to women's self-trust in reproductive health care,  and why they have a duty to do so as part of their larger  duty to respect patient autonomy.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1386184},
}