Feminist bioethics

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Feminist bioethics is a subfield of bioethics which advocates gender and social equality through the critique of existing bioethical discourse, offering unique feminist arguments and viewpoints, and pointing out gender concerns in bioethical issues.^[1][2]

Emerging around the end of the twentieth century, feminist bioethics is a diverse academic field involving the use of social, philosophical, and feminist theories to examine and criticize gender biases and inequalities implied in bioethical problems, theories, and methodologies.^[3][4][5] Feminist critiques of bioethics include androcentrism, gendered concepts, and overemphasis on individual rights. Feminist bioethics offers unique perspectives on several bioethical issues, such as the concept of health, healthcare, the patient-physician relationship, and reproductive issues. There are several criticisms of feminist bioethics, such as a lack of agreement among feminist bioethical arguments due to the plurality and diversity of feminist bioethical discourse, the conceptualization of feminine vulnerability as reinforcing gender oppression, and the field's loss of uniqueness as feminist perspectives in academia become increasingly common.