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This is an edited collection exploring ethical issues in women's health care. It includes topics related to reproduction, but goes beyond this familiar theme to address clinical and social issues largely unrecognized in the bioethics literature. These include ethical issues related to the care of Indigenous women, uninsured refugees and immigrants, rural women, women engaged in sex work, and those with HIV and perinatal mental health disorders. The collection analyzes the complex ways in which practice, policy, and institutional structures intersect and raise ethical issues affecting women's access to health care. Contributors comprise an interdisciplinary group of practitioners including physicians, clinical ethicists, and nurses, as well academic scholars.

The papers in this special issue were first given at a conference in Toronto, Canada, in April 2004 entitled 'Genomics, Genetics, and Society: Bridging the Disciplinary Divides'. The papers fall into four intersecting themes. (1) The introduction of genetic and genomic technologies into communities. (2) Governance, the morals of scientific discourse and policy making. (3) What is a gene? (4) Public knowledge, public trust and improved dialogue between the public and scientists.