Introduction : gender and feminism in bioethics / Susan M. Wolf -- Feminism and bioethics / Susan Sherwin -- Feminist approaches to bioethics / Rosemarie Tong -- On treatment of myopia : feminist standpoint theory and bioethics / Mary B. Mahowald -- Reconstructing the patient : starting with women of color / Dorothy E. Roberts -- What bioethics can learn from the women's health movement / Rebecca Dresser -- A feminist view of health / Laura M. Purdy -- Communicative ethics in medicine : the physician-patient relationship / Janet Farrell Smith -- Ethical obstacles to the participation of women in biomedical research / Vanessa Merton -- Women as vessels and vectors : lessons from the HIV epidemic / Ruth Faden, Nancy Kass, and Deven McGraw -- Gender, feminism, and death : physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia / Susan M. Wolf -- Feminism, bioethics, and genetics / Adrienne Asch and Gail Geller -- Justice in the allocation of health care resources : a feminist account / Hilde Lindemann Nelson and James Lindemann Nelson