Feminism is based on the observation that experience is gendered: that is, a person’s experience can differ in significant ways depending on whether that person is male or female, and attention needs to be paid to that experience if these differences are not to be subsumed in the discourse of the most powerful. There is therefore an associated methodological bias towards methods that ground theory in lived experience, and that retain a sensitivity to morally relevant differences in experience that can result from gender, but also from differences in class, ethnicity, sexuality and so on. Hence although feminist bioethics is not alone in doing so, it is more likely than mainstream bioethics to draw on empirical data or narrative and phenomenological accounts, in order to ensure that both description and normative claims are anchored in the realities of natural, social, political and institutional worlds. As a result feminist bioethics has often drawn on the methods of qualitative social science and health research, to capture important empirical information about the situated encounter with medicine and healthcare.