Description: "Womanist Bioethics introduces a practical framework to address health disparities and inequities, arguing that doing justice to Black women's bodies entails understanding health and vulnerability as cultural productions, thus implicating medical, policy-making, economic and religious institutions in the Black women's health crisis"--
Brief description: Wylin D. Wilson is Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School. She is the author of Economic Ethics and the Black Church.
Review Quotes: "I have been waiting for this book for 15 years. It at once uses and performs a Womanist methodology, offering a different narrative and different 'origin story' of bioethics rooted in the institution of chattel slavery and particularly its treatment of and effects on the bodies of Black women. Importantly, it matches critique with hope--highlighting how centuries old practices of care central to the Black Church help us think in new ways about critical issues such as rural health disparities and Black maternal health. . . A must-read for those who work in medicine, the church, or bioethics, as well as for those who know that we have to start thinking differently about how we care for the health of each person and our communities."--M. Therese Lysaught, Loyola University Chicago