Self-trust and reproductive autonomy.
| dc.contributor.author | McLeod, Carolyn Wendy. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:33:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 1999 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999 | en_US |
| dc.description | In this thesis, I give a theory of the nature of self-trust and an explanation of its role in autonomous decision-making. We tend to think of trust as essentially interpersonal, which casts doubt on the coherence of the concept of self-trust. Drawing on patients' experiences in reproductive medicine, I argue that self-trust is a meaningful as well as a useful concept. I provide autobiographical sketches of a number of women's experiences, supplemented by my own observations made while doing a clinical practicum in reproductive medicine, to illustrate that what many women feel toward themselves in a variety of reproductive health care contexts is analogous to what we feel toward others when we trust and distrust them. I ground my theory of self-trust in an account of interpersonal trust, in which I draw on a number of theories of trust in ethics, especially those of Annette Baier and Karen Jones. The paradigm of trust in those theories is interpersonal, and I describe how self-trust and that paradigm are both alike and unlike one another in the following areas: what it is that we trust about ourselves/others when we are trusting, what kind of mental attitude trust is, and what constitute legitimate grounds for trusting. I use my theory of the nature of self-trust to understand the relation between autonomy and self-trust. I give a feminist analysis of that relation by showing how oppression can be a barrier to self-trust and hence, to autonomy. Lastly, I discuss the practical implications of the value of self-trust for the duty of health care providers to respect women's reproductive autonomy. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1999. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINQ49281 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55662 | |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | en_US | |
| dc.subject | Philosophy. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Women's Studies. | en_US |
| dc.title | Self-trust and reproductive autonomy. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
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