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53Care and the Self: A Philosophical Perspective on Constructing Active MasculinitiesFeminist Philosophy Quarterly 4 (1): 1-15. 2018.Our paper focuses on the philosophical perspective of constructing active caring masculinities agencies in the contemporary feminist discourse. Since contemporary feminisms are not simply anti-essentialist, but more importantly, polyphonic, we believe that it is far more appropriate to talk about ‘masculinities’ as opposed to ‘masculinity’. We are proposing a revised understanding of the self in which the self is not defined primarily in the dichotomous, categorical one-other relationship. We us…Read more
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15Reframing patient-doctor relationships: relational autonomy and treating autonomy as a virtueJournal of Global Ethics 18 (1): 32-47. 2022.Despite extensive theoretical debate, concrete efforts to overcome paternalism and unbalanced power relations between patients and doctors have produced limited results. In this article, I examine...
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7Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity by Danielle SpencerInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 15 (1): 198-202. 2022.Metagnosis, as a text, is an exercise in metanarration: Throughout the book, Danielle Spencer pulls together medical and medicalized storytelling and self-identification accounts to make sense of a plot device that had remained unnamed. "Metagnosis," as coined by Spencer, refers to the dynamic process of learning later in life that one has a medical condition or that part of oneself can now be medicalized. For example, Spencer recounts how "discovering" her lack of stereopsis as an adult affecte…Read more
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University of EdinburghUsher InstituteInterdisciplinary Research Fellow At The Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society
Edinburgh, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland