Now, more and more, disabled women expect to be included in any book on women's experience and women's health. In 1988, some friends of mine and I started an organization in Boston called The Project on Women and Disability. We provided support groups and empowerment training for disabled women and education for doctors and women's groups about disabled women's health issues. We heard from many disabled women around the world, many were starting similar kinds of groups, still very small, but we were beginning to get connected, to feel a sense of an international network of disabled women. I am now interested in a field called bio-ethics.
Ethics is the study of good and bad practice in a profession or field of study.
Bioethics studies the ethics of biological medical science. Bioethics tries to figure out what is good or bad about medical treatments and technologies, and how to prevent people from getting hurt by being used as research subjects. Feminism means many different things to different people. To me it means women working toward equal power in the world. In feminist bioethics we are trying to understand how discrimination against women can affect medical technologies and medical treatments, and how women's views and experience can help medical science become more humane and just.