Contributors
- Contributors
Françoise Baylis is professor and Canada Research chair in bioethics and philosophy at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Currently, she is a member of the board of directors of Assisted Human Reproduction Canada, the federal regulatory agency responsible for protecting and promoting the health, safety, dignity, and rights of Canadians who use or are born of assisted human reproduction technologies.
Robyn Bluhm is an 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, in Virginia. Her research examines philosophical issues in medicine and psychiatry, with a particular focus on the relationship between ethical and epistemological questions arising in medical research or clinical practice. She has recently co-edited an issue of the journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine on evidence-based medicine.
Kirstin Borgerson is a Killam Postdoctoral fellow and a CIHR Ethics of Health Research and Policy postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. She will become an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie University in July 2009. Her research interests are in philosophy of medicine, bioethics, feminist philosophy, philosophy of science, and social epistemology. [End Page 176]
Jocelyn Downie is a professor in the Faculties of Law and Medicine and holds a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy at Dalhousie University in Canada. Her research has focused on the governance of research involving humans, women's health issues, and assisted death. She co-edited Health Law at the Supreme Court of Canada, Canadian Health Law and Policy, Dental Law in Canada, and Health Care Ethics in Canada, co-authored The Olivieri Report: The Complete Text of the Report of the Independent Inquiry Commissioned by the Canadian Association of University Teachers, and wrote Dying Justice: A Case for the Decriminalization of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Canada. She is currently co-editing Being Relational: Reflections on Relational Theory & Health Law and Policy.
Anna Gotlib is an assistant professor of philosophy at Binghamton University (SUNY). Her areas of specialization include ethics (especially narrative ethics, feminist ethics, and moral psychology), medical ethics, and social and political philosophy.
Monique Lanoix is an assistant professor in the philosophy and religion department of Appalachian State University. She has recently co-edited a special issue on feminism and philosophy for Les ateliers de l'éthique and published "A body no longer of one's own" in a collection entitled Embodiment and Agency. Her interests focus on health care rights and ancillary health care services.
Carolyn McLeod is associate professor and graduate chair in the Department of Philosophy 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.
Wendy Rogers is professor of clinical ethics in the Department of Philosophy and Australian School of Advanced Medicine at Macquarie 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 research interests are research ethics, public health ethics, and feminist ethics. [End Page 177]
Meredith Celene Schwartz is a doctoral student at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Her dissertation focuses on respect as an important component of social justice when creating policies aimed at reducing health inequalities. She is the co-author, with Tara Johnson, of Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia (Your Health Press, 2007).
Rosemarie Tong is Distinguished Professor of Health Care Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and director of the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She has authored and co-edited thirteen books, including Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (1996), Linking Visions: Feminist Bioethics, Human Rights, and the Developing World with Anne Donchin and Susan Dodds (2004), New Perspectives in Health Care Ethics: An Interdisciplinary and Crosscultural Approach (2007), and Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction (2008, 3rd ed.). Her specializations are feminist bioethics, reproductive and genetic issues...
