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Susan Sherwin No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics and Health Care. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press1992. Pp. xi + 286.

Ethics, understood as the philosophical study of morality, has come under intense scrutiny and no small measure of criticism in recent years. Many moral philosophers, discouraged by the abstraction and seeming irrelevance of what has come to be called 'metaethics,' have turned their attention and talents to practical moral problems, giving rise to the field known as 'applied ethics.' Others reject the traditional project of ethical theory namely, stating the features of an action that make it right (permissible or obligatory). These latter philosophers prefer to focus on particular cases and contexts for moral insight and guidance. Still other philosophers remain committed to ethical theory per se, but complain that the extant theories are false, incomplete, or otherwise unacceptable. Some philosophers in this third group set out to produce ethical theories of their own. Susan Sherwin, a philosopher at Dalhousie University, falls into the first and third categories. While she has not abandoned the theoretical project altogether, she is dissatisfied with the theories that have been most discussed and defended in the literature: consequentialism, deontology, and contractarianism. Drawing on the work of other feminist thinkers, Sherwin formulates a 'feminist ethics' that, as she puts it, 'derives from the explicitly political perspective of feminism, wherein the oppression of women is seen to be morally and politically unacceptable.,} Sherwin's theory ('approach' might be a better word) allegedly