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886Relational 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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12"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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20Feminist 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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77Whither 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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12Feminist 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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46The feminist health care ethics consultant as architect and advocatePublic Affairs Quarterly 17 (2): 141-158. 2003.
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10Appendix B: David Braybrooke’s Publications 1955-2005In Susan Sherwin & Peter Schotch (eds.), Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke, University of Toronto Press. pp. 373-386. 2006.
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15Notes on ContributorsIn Susan Sherwin & Peter Schotch (eds.), Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke, University of Toronto Press. pp. 387-390. 2006.
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81Embodiment and Agency (edited book)Pennsylvania State University Press. 2009."A collection of essays in feminist philosophy.
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20Feminist perspectives in medical ethicsIn Helen B. Holmes & Laura Purdy (eds.), Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics, Indiana University Press. 1992.
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2Ethel M. Kersey, Women Philosophers: A Bio-critical Source Book Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 10 (7): 280-282. 1990.
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119The concept of a person in the context of abortionBioethics Quarterly 3 (1): 21-34. 1981.The paper investigates the significance of the question of the fetus's status as a person for resolving the moral issues of abortion. It considers and evaluates several proposed solutions to this question. It also attempts to explain how different questions about the permissibility of abortion are appropriate to discussions at different levels of decision-making: the pregnant woman, the health professional, and the social policy level. The author's own conclusions to all these questions are offe…Read more
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23From, the Editors 493Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 3 (4): 522-532. 1994.Throughout the world, research ethics committees are relied on to prevent unethical research and protect research subjects. Given that reliance, the composition of committees and the manner in which decisions are arrived at by committee members is of critical importance. There have been Instances in which an inadequate review process has resulted in serious harm to research subjects. Deficient committee review was identified as one of the factors In a study in New Zealand which resulted in the s…Read more
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77Looking Backwards, Looking Forward: Hopes for Bioethics' Next Twenty‐Five YearsBioethics 25 (2): 75-82. 2011.I reflect on the past, present, and future of the field of bioethics. In so doing, I offer a very situated overview of where bioethics has been, where it now is, where it seems to be going, where I think we could do better, and where I dearly hope the field will be heading. I also propose three ways of re‐orienting our theoretic tools to guide us in a new direction: (1) adopt an ethics of responsibility; (2) explore the responsibilities of various kinds of actors and relationships among them; (3…Read more
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65Feminist and Medical Ethics: Two Different Approaches to Contextual EthicsHypatia 4 (2): 57-72. 1989.Feminist ethics and medical ethics are critical of contemporary moral theory in several similar respects. There is a shared sense of frustration with the level of abstraction and generality that characterizes traditional philosophic work in ethics and a common commitment to including contextual details and allowing room for the personal aspects of relationships in ethical analysis. This paper explores the ways in which context is appealed to in feminist and medical ethics, the sort of details th…Read more
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Diana T. Meyers, Self, Society, and Personal Choice Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 12 (4): 282-284. 1992.
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45The Importance of Ontology for Feminist Policy-making in the Realm of Reproductive TechnologyCanadian Journal of Philosophy 32 (sup1): 273-295. 2002.
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3Alison M. Jaggar, Feminist Politics and Human Nature Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 5 (7): 293-295. 1985.
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1Normalizing reproductive technologies and the implications for autonomyGlobalizing Feminist Bioethics. forthcoming.
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Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |