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905Relational Solidarity and Climate ChangeIn Cheryl Macpherson (ed.), Climate Change and Health: Bioethical Insights into Values and Policy, Springer. pp. 79-88. 2016.The evidence is overwhelming that members of particularly wealthy and industry-owning segments of Western societies have much larger carbon footprints than most other humans, and thereby contribute far more than their “fair share” to the enormous problem of climate change. Nonetheless, in this paper we shall counsel against a strategy focused primarily on blaming and shaming and propose, instead, a change in the ethical conversation about climate change. We recommend a shift in the ethical frame…Read more
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13"Nagging" Questions: Feminist Ethics in Everyday Life (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1995.In this anthology of new and classic articles, fifteen noted feminist philosophers explore contemporary ethical issues that uniquely affect the lives of women. These issues in applied ethics include autonomy, responsibility, sexual harassment, women in the military, new technologies for reproduction, surrogate motherhood, pornography, abortion, nonfeminist women and others. Whether generated by old social standards or intensified by recent technology, these dilemmas all pose persistent, 'nagging…Read more
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1Health careIn Alison M. Jaggar & Iris Marion Young (eds.), A Companion to Feminist Philosophy, Blackwell. 2017.As one might expect, feminist health‐care ethics takes place at the intersection of feminist ethics and health‐care ethics (also known as (bio)medical ethics and bioethics). It encompasses a wide range of efforts to bring feminist perspectives and tools to bear on the set of ethical issues that arise within the realm of health and health care. These efforts expand and modify debates in both fields: that is, they add the perspective of gender analysis to the apparently gender‐neutral tradition of…Read more
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21Feminist Perspectives in Medical EthicsHastings Center Report 23 (3): 43. 1993.Book reviewed in this article: No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics & Health Care. By Susan Sherwin Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics. Edited by Helen Bequaert Holmes and Laura M. Purdy.
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79Whither Bioethics Now? The Promise of Relational TheoryInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 10 (1): 7-29. 2017.This article reflects on the work of feminist bioethicists over the past ten years, reviewing how effective feminists have been in using relational theory to reorient bioethics and where we hope it will go from here. Feminist bioethicists have made significant achievements using relational theory to shape the notion of autonomy, bringing to light the relevance of patients' social circumstances and where they are situated within systems of privilege and oppression. But there is much work to be do…Read more
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16The Importance of Ontology for Feminist Policy-making in the Realm of Reproductive TechnologyCanadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 28 (sup1): 273-295. 2002.In the face of rapid technological developments and growing economic pressures, governments around the world are being called upon to regulate activities in the realm of biotechnology. My aim in this paper is to argue that core conceptual insights of feminist ethics are essential to ethically adequate policy-making in this area. Specifically, I shall argue that development of ethical biotechnology require that policy-makers undergo an ontological shift from the currently widespread assumptions o…Read more
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8Grundlagen, Rahmen, Linsen: Die Rolle von Theorien in der BioethikIn Nikola Biller-Andorno, Settimio Monteverde, Tanja Krones & Tobias Eichinger (eds.), Medizinethik, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 31-39. 2021.Susan Sherwin ist eine kanadische Philosophin und Wegbereiterin der feministischen Ethik. Bis zu ihrer Emeritierung war sie lange Zeit Professorin an der Dalhousie University in Halifax, Kanada. In ihrem Text „Foundations, Frameworks, Lenses: The Role of Theories in Bioethics“ von 1999 plädiert sie für eine kritische Reflexion gängiger Metaphern in der Bioethik.
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234Relational Autonomy, Self-Trust, and Health Care for Patients Who Are OppressedIn Catriona Mackenzie & Natalie Stoljar (eds.), Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency, and the Social Self, Oxford University Press. 2000.
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13The Ethics of Babymaking (review)Hastings Center Report 25 (2): 34. 1995.Book reviewed in this article: Human Reproduction: Principles, Practices, Policies. By Christine Overall. Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies. By John A. Robertson. Proceed with Care: Final Report of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies.
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13Feminist Ethics and In Vitro FertilizationCanadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 13 (n/a): 264-284. 1987.New technology in human reproduction has provoked wide ranging arguments about the desirability and moral justifiability of many of these efforts. Authors of biomedical ethics have ventured into the field to offer the insight of moral theory to these complex moral problems of contemporary life. I believe, however, that the moral theories most widely endorsed today are problematic and that a new approach to ethics is necessary if we are to address the concerns and perspectives identified by femin…Read more
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1Normalizing reproductive technologies and the implications for autonomyGlobalizing Feminist Bioethics. forthcoming.
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75Genetic enhancement, sports and relational autonomySport, Ethics and Philosophy 1 (2). 2007.This paper explores the question of what attitude we should take towards efforts to develop the technology required to allow genetic enhancement of individuals in order to improve performance in sports: specifically, should we (a) welcome such innovations, (b) resign ourselves to their inevitable appearance or (c) actively resist their development and widespread adoption? Much of the literature on this topic leans towards options (a) or (b). I argue against both (a) and (b) and appeal to the con…Read more
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Ethel M. Kersey, Women Philosophers: A Bio-critical Source Book (review)Philosophy in Review 10 280-282. 1990.
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48Women in Clinical Studies: A Feminist ViewCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 3 (4): 533. 1994.There is significant evidence that the health needs of women and minorities have been neglected by a medical research community whose agendas and protocols tend to focus on more advantaged segments of society. In response, the National Institutes of Health and Food and Drug Administration in the United States have recently issued new policies aimed at increasing the utilization of women in clinical studies. As well, the U.S. Congress passed the NIH Revitalization Act of 1993, which specifically …Read more
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8ContentsIn Susan Sherwin & Peter Schotch (eds.), Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke, University of Toronto Press. 2006.
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16 Resisting the emergence of Bio-AmazonsIn Claudio Marcello Tamburrini & Torbjörn Tännsjö (eds.), Genetic Technology and Sport: Ethical Questions, Routledge. pp. 199. 2005.
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4AcknowledgmentsIn Susan Sherwin & Peter Schotch (eds.), Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke, University of Toronto Press. 2006.
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29Moral perception and global visionsBioethics 15 (3). 2001.Because moral perception plays an essential role in guiding morally responsible behaviour, agents have a responsibility to develop their capacities in this area. There are several strategies agents can (and should) pursue in order to improve their skills at moral perception. I appeal to insights derived from the work of feminist epistomologists and philosophers of science to argue that feminist approaches to multiculturalism are particularly valuable tools for improving moral perception.
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9From theory, to practice, to policyIn Ruth F. Chadwick & Doris Schroeder (eds.), Applied Ethics: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 1--140. 2002.
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104Feminist ethics and the metaphor of AIDSJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 26 (4). 2001.This paper looks at a range of metaphors used within HIV/AIDS discussions and research in support of the claim that bioethicists should pay serious attention to metaphors. Metaphors shape the ways we think about problems and the types of solutions we investigate. HIV/AIDS is an especially rich field for the investigation of metaphor, since the struggles for dominance among different metaphorical options has been very evident. In the field of medical resarch as well as in the area of public polic…Read more
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2Theory versus practice in ethics: A feminist perspective on justice in health careIn Wayne L. Sumner & Joseph Boyle (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Bioethics, University of Toronto Press. pp. 187--209. 1996.
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9ReferencesIn Susan Sherwin & Peter Schotch (eds.), Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke, University of Toronto Press. pp. 391-412. 2006.
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23CommentaryCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 7 (4): 366-370. 1998.According to the present argument, worries that some individuals might make premature or unnecessary choices for themselves regarding euthanasia should further motivate and help shape our discussions about healthcare system reform. The reason for this is that in some cases individuals with chronic or terminal illnesses may have their lives made more unbearable than they otherwise might have been by the failure of the healthcare system to respond appropriately to their needs. Until these apparent…Read more
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8IndexIn Susan Sherwin & Peter Schotch (eds.), Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke, University of Toronto Press. pp. 413-425. 2006.
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9Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke (edited book)University of Toronto Press. 2006.
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Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |