Contributors
- Contributors
Angela Ballantyne has a BSc in Genetics and a PhD in Bioethics. She has worked for the World Health Organization (Geneva), Imperial College London (UK), Monash University, and Flinders University (Australia). Her interests include research ethics, global health, exploitation, genethics, and public health ethics.
Margaret P. Battin, MFA, PhD is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah. She is the author of prize-winning short stories and numerous books, including The least worst death: Essays in bioethics on the end of life (Oxford University Press, 1994), and Ending life: Ethics and the way we die (Oxford University Press, 2005).
Ariella Binik completed her Masters in philosophy and bioethics at McGill University in 2007. She is currently pursuing a PhD in philosophy at the University of Western Ontario, where her research focuses on international perspectives on standards of care for subjects in developing countries who participate in clinical trials.
Anne Donchin is Emerita Professor of Philosophy, Women's Studies and Philanthropic Studies at Indiana University. A founding "mother" of The International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB), she is the co-editor of two volumes based on presentations at FAB conferences: Embodying bioethics: Recent feminist advances (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999) and Linking [End Page 189] visions: Feminist bioethics, human rights, and the developing world (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004). She is currently completing a manuscript entitled Procreation, power, and personal autonomy: A feminist critique.
Lisa Eckenwiler is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Director of Health Care Ethics at the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics at George Mason University. Her publications include The ethics of bioethics: Mapping the moral landscape (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), co-edited with Felicia Cohn. She is currently writing a book on justice and caregiving in the context of globalization.
Carolyn Ells, RRT, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Member of the Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill University and Clinical Ethicist and Chair of the Research Ethics Committee at the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital. As a member of Groupe Formation en éthique, she was contracted by the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux to develop a research ethics education program for research ethics committees in the province of Quebec.
Dafna Feinholz earned a PhD in Research Psychology in Mexico and a Masters in Bioethics in Spain. She is currently the Executive Director of the National Commission of Bioethics in Mexico and is the founder and first chairperson of the Latin American Forum for Ethics Committees for Health Research.
Rebecca Kukla is Professor of Philosophy and Internal Medicine and Affiliated Professor of Women's Studies at the University of South Florida, where she is a core faculty member in the graduate program in Medical Humanities and Bioethics. Her publications include Mass hysteria: Medicine, culture, and mothers' bodies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).
Carolyn McLeod is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Her book, Self-Trust and reproductive autonomy (MIT Press, 2002), is representative of her research interests in general, covering areas at the intersection of reproductive ethics, philosophical moral psychology, and feminist theory.
Julie Ponesse recently received her PhD from the University of Western Ontario, where she defended her dissertation entitled, "Aristotle on Constitutive [End Page 190] Moral Luck." Her current research focuses on interpreting Aristotle's use of the concept of luck in his ethical texts in light of the definition of tychê (luck) that we find in his natural philosophy.
Sandra Reineke is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Women's Studies Program at the University of Idaho. Her primary research interests focus on sexual and reproductive politics, citizenship rights, and feminist political theory. She is currently working on a comparative study of national laws governing new reproductive and genetic technologies (NRGTs) in Europe and North America.
Wendy Rogers runs the program of ethics, law, and professionalism in the medical course at Flinders University. She is a Chief Investigator on several Australian Research Council funded projects and has served on the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)'s Australian Health Ethics Committee. Her main...
