Contributors
- Contributors
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. 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.
Jane Chambers-Evans is a nursing practice consultant and clinical ethicist at the McGill University Health Centre, and associate professor in the School of Nursing and affiliate member of the biomedical ethics unit, both at McGill University in Montreal.
Amanda R. Clarke is a project coordinator with Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation aimed at reducing racial and ethnic health disparities. She supports the national program office at the University of Chicago’s Center for Health and the Social Sciences. Before joining Finding Answers, Clarke worked in Ghana, West Africa, as program manager of a sexual health initiative sponsored by the United Nations Population Fund. She holds a master of public health degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Lisa Eckenwiler is associate professor of philosophy in the department of philosophy and in the department of health administration and policy at George Mason University. She serves as the director of health care ethics at the Center for Health [End Page 169] Policy Research and Ethics. She has published widely in bioethics and publichealth ethics. Her second book, Long-Term Care and Global Justice: Thinking Ecologically, will be published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in 2012 and she is co-editing a book with Zahra Meghani, Female Migrant Workers: Ethical and Political Issues, to be published by Routledge.
Carolyn Ells is associate professor of medicine and a member of the biomedical ethics unit at McGill University, and associate researcher at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, both in Montreal. She is currently co-coordinator of the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Her research contributes to efforts that shape and support ethical processes and policies in hospitals and other health-care delivery organizations.
Elisabeth Gedge is an associate professor of philosophy at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Her primary areas of research and teaching are feminist bioethics, feminist jurisprudence, and philosophy of religion. She has served on the Hamilton Health Sciences Clinical Ethics Committee, the McMaster Research Ethics Board, and the ethics committee of the Victorian Order of Nurses.
Anita Ho is assistant professor in the Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia and director of ethics services for Providence Health Care in Vancouver. Trained in philosophy, her main research areas include ethics, bioethics, social/political philosophy, and disability studies. She is currently working on a research project on trust and autonomy in clinical and research medicine, supported by a faculty research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Matthew R. Hunt is an assistant professor in the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy and affiliate member of the biomedical ethics unit of McGill University in Montreal. He chairs the clinical ethics committee of the Shriners Hospital for Children (Montreal). Dr. Hunt’s principal areas of research are global health ethics and ethical issues in rehabilitation care and professions.
Kathryn L. MacKay is a graduate of McGill University’s master of bioethics program, through Philosophy. Her thesis focused on international gestational surrogacy and examined the possibility that this phenomenon is exploitative of the women in the developing world who act as gestational surrogates for couples in [End Page 170] the developed world. MacKay is a researcher in public health policy with the Ontario Medical Association.
Ruth Macklin is professor of bioethics in the department of epidemiology and population health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY. She is a member of the vaccine advisory committee and the research proposal review panel at the World Health Organization, and is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academies of Science. She is a past president of the International Association of Bioethics and is currently a member of its board of directors.
Carla Saenz is a bioethicist. She...
