Contributors
- Contributors
Pat Armstrong is professor of sociology and of women’s studies at York University, Toronto. She held a Canada Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Institute of Health Research Chair in Health Services, is a distinguished research professor in sociology and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Focusing on the fields of social policy, of women, work, and the health and social services, she has published widely, coauthoring more than a dozen books and coediting another dozen. For many years, she was chair of Women and Health Care Reform, a group funded for more than a decade by Health Canada.
Sheryl de Lacey is an associate professor in the School of Nursing, at Flinders University in South Australia. She was a senior research fellow at the University of Adelaide in 2003–2007, and her research focus is on infertility and women’s health, and on bioethical issues arising in assisted reproductive technology (ART). She is currently a member of the NHMRC working committee on ethical guidelines for ART and has held a long-standing advisory role to the SA government regarding ART legislation and ethical codes. She is a coauthor of Ethics and Law for Australian Nurses (2011). She is a member of the SA Nursing and Midwifery Board and serves on the advisory board of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB).
Lisa A. Eckenwiler is associate professor of philosophy in the departments of philosophy and health administration and policy at George Mason University. Professor Eckenwiler’s current research focuses on ethical issues at the intersection [End Page 202] of long-term care workforce shortages, health worker migration and global health inequities, as well as the ethical norms that should guide policy making in health equity. Her recent book, Long-Term Care, Globalization, and Justice (2012) addresses these issues. Dr. Eckenwiler is also engaged in several international collaborations concerning health worker migration, research ethics, and humanitarian health ethics.
Anna Gotlib is an assistant professor of philosophy at Brooklyn College CUNY. From 2007 to 2011, she was an assistant professor of philosophy at Binghamton University (SUNY). She received her J.D. from Cornell Law School, her M.A. (in philosophy) from the University of Michigan, and her Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Gotlib’s areas of research and teaching include bioethics, moral psychology, philosophy of law, and feminist philosophy. Her research has addressed illness and marginalization, as well as embodiment and biotechnology, and her most recent work focuses on intergenerational health-care justice and memory and identity.
Martha Holstein teaches, writes, and does training on health care and organizational ethics and ethics and aging. She is affiliated with Loyola University and the Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies and is codirector at the Center for Long-Term Care Reform at the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group in Chicago. Her most recent book, written with Jennifer Parks and Mark Waymack, colleagues at Loyola, is called Ethics, Aging, and Society: The Critical Turn (2011). Her next writing project is on aging women (title to be determined) and, if luck holds, it will be out sometime in 2014 as part of Rowman and Littlefield’s Aging and Diversity series, edited by Toni Calasanti.
Ariana Kaci received her M.A. from the department of bioethics and humanities at the University of Washington. Her interests include care of the elderly, improving support for caregivers, and ethics of care and gender justice in the context of international communities.
Eva Feder Kittay is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and a senior fellow at the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University. Her books include Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic Structure (1987), Women and Moral Theory (1987), Love’s Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (1999), The Subject of Care: Theoretical Perspectives on [End Page 203] Dependency and Women (2002), Blackwell Studies in Feminist Philosophy (2007), and Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy (2010). Her current book projects are Disabled Minds and Things that Matter and an edited collection of her articles on care.
Christopher P. La Barbera, Ph.D., currently serves as assistant dean of continuing education at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU). After graduating from Dartmouth College...
