bioethics

is gendered feminine but often tries to act masculine. It can be said to be gendered feminine because it has defined itself as a sort of handmaiden to biomedicine, helping address important ethical topics but without calling into question the basic worth of the biomedical enterprise itself.

Hilde Lindemann has argued that bioethics is gendered feminine but often tries to act masculine.24 It is gendered feminine because it has defined itself as a sort of handmaiden to biomedicine, helping address important ethical topics but without calling into question the basic worth of the biomedical enterprise itself. It often tries to act masculine because in our culture, what is feminine receives little respect. "Hard" science, for instance, is viewed as masculine, so it is no mystery that bioethics has so fallen in love with the new genomics.

is so in love with the new genomics because genomics draws bioethics closer to the more masculinist, more respected 'hard sciences'.

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