Hastings Cent Rep. 2022 Mar;52 Suppl 1:S69-S71. doi: 10.1002/hast.1376.
This essay argues that womanism, a social theory focused on the embodied lives of Black women, can be useful to bioethicists as they consider health care ethics during a pandemic-and beyond. A general social justice-oriented ethical framework is helpful to begin a conversation on pandemic ethics, but it does not directly lead to the kind of on-the-margins-of-society framework that is necessary to increase health equity and justice. With particular concern for poor Black women, I discuss three main reasons that such an ethics framework needs to incorporate womanist ethics: the feminization of poverty, lack of access to high-quality health care, and rape and other historical violence against Black women. I conclude by proposing that an understanding of womanism as a correlative to the Black Lives Matter clarion call can create an ethical narrative in bioethics that can exist beyond times of pandemic.
这篇文章认为，女性主义是一种关注黑人女性身体生活的社会理论，对于考虑大流行病期间和之后的医疗保健伦理的生物伦理学家来说是有用的。一个普遍的以社会正义为导向的伦理框架有助于开始讨论大流行病伦理，但它并不能直接导致那种处于社会边缘的框架，而这种框架是增加健康公平和正义所必需的。我特别关注贫困的黑人妇女，讨论了这种伦理框架需要纳入女性主义伦理的三个主要原因：贫困的女性化、缺乏高质量的医疗保健机会以及对黑人妇女的强奸和其他历史暴力。最后，我提出，将女性主义理解为“黑人的命也是命”的呼声的相关内容，可以在生物伦理学中创造一种伦理叙事，这种叙事可以超越大流行病时期而存在。
