Contributors
- Contributors
Frances R. Batzer is Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, at Thomas Jefferson University. She is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Obstetrics and Gynecology as well as Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. She completed a Masters in Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. She was awarded the National Faculty Award for Excellence in Resident Education and Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Batzer has served on the National Medical Board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, as well as on the Ethics Board of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine.
Elizabeth Ben-Ishai is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Albion College. Her research focuses on feminist political theory, theories of autonomy, and social welfare service delivery. Her recent publications include Fostering Autonomy: A Theory of Citizenship, the State, and Social Service Delivery (2012).
Robyn Bluhm is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and Co-Director of the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs at Old Dominion University. Her research examines philosophical issues in science and medicine, with a particular focus on the relationship between ethical and epistemological questions arising in medical research or clinical practice. She is a coeditor of Neurofeminism: Issues at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Cognitive Science (2012). [End Page 191]
Jessica Robyn Cadwallader recently received the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association Ph.D. Award for her doctoral thesis, entitled "Suffering Difference: The Ethics and Politics of Modifying Bodies," which explores the relationship between normalcy and the corporeal experience of suffering. She is currently undertaking a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, exploring the political, ethical, and individual effects of "therapeutic forgetting." She has published articles related to this work in Discourses; Culture, Theory, Critique; Somatechnics; and Australian Feminist Studies.
Susan Dodds is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wollongong. She has published extensively in feminist bioethics and political philosophy. Her recent work has focused on two areas, on deliberative democratic approaches to public policy surrounding ethically contentious issues in bioethics, and on the ethical and political obligations arising from recognition of dependency. She is co-editor (with Rosie Tong and Anne Donchin) of Linking Visions: Feminist Bioethics, Human Rights, and the Developing World (2004).
Carolyn Ells is Associate Professor of Medicine and Member of the Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill University, and Associate Researcher at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research. Her research contributes to efforts that shape and support ethical processes and policies in hospitals and other health-care delivery organizations. Topics include patient-centered care, research ethics policy, and feminist ethical theory. She is currently Co-coordinator and Archivist for FAB.
Donald Evans is Professor Emeritus of the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has served as the Director of Bioethics Centres in Wales and New Zealand and published widely in Bioethics over the past twenty-seven years. He is the immediate past President of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee and currently represents New Zealand on the Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee of the same body. He was a founding international member of the Stem Cell Oversight Committee of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and is an elected member of the Russian Academy of Humanitarian Research.
Laura Guidry-Grimes began her Philosophy Ph.D. program at Georgetown University in 2009 and is currently starting her dissertation. She specializes in bioethics broadly construed, and her main research interests include disability activism, global and social justice, and feminist philosophy. She worked as a Graduate Fellow [End Page 192] for the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and continues to serve on Georgetown's Biomedical Institutional Review Board.
Catriona Mackenzie is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her publications include, as co-editor, Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency, and the Social Self (2000), Practical Identity and Narrative Agency (2008), and Emotions, Imagination and Moral Reasoning (2012), as well as numerous journal articles on a wide range of topics in feminist philosophy, moral psychology, ethics, and applied ethics. Her current research includes projects on...
