Laboni Bandyopadhyay is a Senior Research Fellow, specialising in medical ethics in the Department of Philosophy at Jadavpur University. Her doctoral research examines the moral status of human life at the threshold of personhood. Drawing together lexical, legal, ethical, and metaphysical modes of analysis, her project investigates how the boundaries of moral considerability are drawn across prenatal and early postnatal life, with particular attention to abortion, female infanticide, reproductive rights and the legal frameworks governing reproductive rights in India.
Her primary areas of research are medical ethics, feminist ethics, neuroeth…
Laboni Bandyopadhyay is a Senior Research Fellow, specialising in medical ethics in the Department of Philosophy at Jadavpur University. Her doctoral research examines the moral status of human life at the threshold of personhood. Drawing together lexical, legal, ethical, and metaphysical modes of analysis, her project investigates how the boundaries of moral considerability are drawn across prenatal and early postnatal life, with particular attention to abortion, female infanticide, reproductive rights and the legal frameworks governing reproductive rights in India.
Her primary areas of research are medical ethics, feminist ethics, neuroethics, consciousness studies and social and political philosophy. She is also drawn to continental philosophy, especially existentialist accounts of embodiment, freedom, and ambiguity.
