Contributors
- Contributors
Suze G. Berkhout is a psychiatry resident in the department of psychiatry, clinician scientist stream, at the University of Toronto. Her research examines intersections between social identity, agency, and knowledge-generating practices in biomedical sciences and clinical medicine, considering the implications for feminist ethics and feminist philosophy of science.
Nikola Biller-Andorno directs the Institute of Biomedical Ethics of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, a WHO Collaborating Centre for Bioethics, as well as the Ph.D. program Biomedical Ethics and Law (medical track) at the university. In addition, she has served as deputy editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics and is the immediate past president of the International Association of Bioethics. Currently she is a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow and Visiting Professor of Biomedical Ethics at Harvard University, exploring the interface of health-care ethics, policy, economics, and management.
Patrick Clipsham received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Western Ontario. He is currently a lecturer at that same university, and a research assistant on the Canadian Institutes of Health Research grant Let Conscience Be Their Guide? Conscientious Refusals in Reproductive Health Care. His other recently published works include an article in the International Journal of Applied Philosophy and an entry on "Game Theory" in the Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism. [End Page 178]
James Dwyer is a faculty member in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. He teaches courses that address ethical issues in medicine, public health, and global health. His written work focuses on health, justice, and social responsibility.
Agomoni Ganguli Mitra holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Ethics and Law from the University of Zurich. Her areas of interest include vulnerability and exploitation in international research, global justice and bioethics, and gender-related injustice and discrimination.
Abigail Gosselin is associate professor of philosophy at Regis University in Denver. She is the author of Global Poverty and Individual Responsibility (2009) as well as of articles on human rights, moral agency, drug addiction, and the epistemological limitations of memoirs. Her current work examines the justice implications of various epistemological frameworks for understanding mental disorder, especially in relation to women's mental health.
Melinda C. Hall is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests include the intersection of contemporary bioethics and disability studies, the ethics of human enhancement, and the social construction of the disabled subject. She is currently developing a critique of the notion that enhancement, and especially the genetic selection of one's offspring, is a moral obligation.
Serene J. Khader is assistant professor of philosophy at Stony Brook University. She is the author of Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment (2011). In addition to her work on how oppression shapes people's values and opportunities, she has published on reproductive rights, philosophy of disability, ethics of care, and the ethics of international development. Her current work is on the normative commitments required for transnational feminist solidarity.
Lynette Reid is associate professor in the department of bioethics in the faculty of medicine at Dalhousie University, where she directs a pre-clerkship course in medical ethics, law, health systems and policy, health services and quality of care, and population health. Her research engagement is in ethical analysis of the social responsibilities of the medical profession and in ethical issues in access to care. [End Page 179]
Jackie Leach Scully is professor of social ethics and bioethics, and co-director of the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre at Newcastle University, UK. She is also a former co-coordinator of FAB. Her research interests include the sociology of morality, disability and embodiment, and socioethical responses to new technologies. She has written extensively on disability and bioethics, including Disability Bioethics: Moral Bodies, Moral Difference (2008).
Alexis Shotwell is an associate professor at Carleton University. She is the author of Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding (2011). Her academic work addresses racial formation, unspeakable and unspoken knowledge, sexuality, gender, and political transformation.
Joseph A. Stramondo earned a B.A. in philosophy in 2004 and an M.A. in public policy studies in 2007, both from Trinity College in Hartford, CT. He then began studying toward...
