Contributors
- Contributors
Anne Donchin is emerita professor of philosophy and women’s studies at Indiana University, Indianapolis. A founding “mother” of the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB), her research focuses on the intersection of bioethics and feminist philosophy. She has published numerous articles dealing with personal autonomy, gender, bioethical theory, the moral significance of innovative reproductive and genetic practices, and human rights. She is the coeditor of Embodying Bioethics: Recent Feminist Advances (1999) and Linking Visions: Feminist Bioethics, Human Rights, and the Developing World (2004). She is currently completing a manuscript titled “Procreation, Power, and Personal Autonomy: A Feminist Critique.”
Heike Felzmann is a lecturer in ethics at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her current research interests are in health-care ethics and research ethics, with particular focus on the Irish context.
Anna Gotlib is an assistant professor of philosophy at Brooklyn College CUNY. From 2007 until 2011, she was an assistant professor of philosophy at Binghamton University (SUNY). She received her JD from Cornell Law School, her MA (in philosophy) from the University of Michigan, and her Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Anna’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. [End Page 207]
Laura Guidry-Grimes is a doctoral candidate and a teaching associate in the philosophy department at Georgetown University. She specializes in bioethics, especially clinical ethics, psychiatric ethics, and philosophy of disability. She has served on Georgetown’s Institutional Review Board for over three years and has interned with the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, the Pan American Health Organization, and MedStar Washington Hospital Center. She also assisted research for a Complex Moral Problems Grant and the Second Wave Initiative.
Ami Harbin is an assistant professor of philosophy and women and gender studies at Oakland University (Michigan). She received her Ph.D. in philosophy at Dalhousie University in 2011 and was a postdoctoral research fellow at Novel Tech Ethics and the Schulich School of Law, 2011–2012. Her research interests include feminist philosophy, moral psychology, emotional experience in health care, mental health ethics, and queer bioethics.
Karey Harwood is an associate professor of religious studies and women’s and gender studies at North Carolina State University, where she has taught since 2003. She earned a Ph.D. from Emory University in the ethics and society program of the Graduate Division of Religion. She has published primarily in the area of bioethics, but also writes about the moral arguments surrounding public education. For the 2013–2014 academic year, Karey is on leave from NC State and is serving as executive director of Public Schools First North Carolina, a statewide non-profit organization that advocates for public education.
Helen Bequaert Holmes (“Becky”) was cofounder of FAB in 1992, and now lives in a retirement community, working on ethics and climate change. With degrees in chemistry and zoology, plus a Ph.D. in genetics (University of Massachusetts), she taught at high school and college levels. She organized two national conferences, “Ethical Issues in Human Reproductive Technology: Analysis by Women” (1979) and “Women and Genetics in Contemporary Society” (1996). She edited three collections of feminist papers on reproductive technologies. In 1986, she taught at Waikato University in New Zealand on a Fulbright grant.
S. B. Jamil is an associate professor of philosophy at Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus, where she is also on the executive board of the United Faculty of Miami Dade College (AFL-CIO/AFT Local #4253). Her research and teaching interests [End Page 208] broadly include pedagogy of philosophy, applied philosophy, applied ethics, and social justice.
Florencia Luna is an independent researcher at CONICET (National Scientific and Technological Research Council), Argentina. Director of the program of bioethics at FLACSO (Latin American University of Social Sciences), she previously served as the president of the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) (2003–2005). She is an expert at the World Health Organization (WHO) and a member of the Scientific and Advisory Committee (STAC) of the Department of...
