Curriculum Vitae
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Department of Philosophy
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Charlotte, North Carolina 28223-0001
Education: B.A. 1970, Religious Studies/ German Marygrove College Detroit, Michigan
M.A. 1971, Philosophy Catholic University
Thesis: “Reinterpreting Wilhelm Washington, D.C.
Dilthey’s Geisteswissenschaften”
Ph.D. 1978,Philosophy Temple University
Dissertation: “Towards a Rational Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Reconstruction of Anglo-American
Criminal Law: The Insanity Defense”
Employment: 1978 - 1988, Assistant and Associate Professor of Philosophy, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
1988 – 1989, Visiting Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
1989 – 1998, Thatcher Professor in Medical Humanities and Philosophy, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
1993, Louise M. Olmstead Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, Spring Semester, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
1998, L. Stacy Davidson, Jr. Visiting Professor, Department of Liberal Arts, Spring Semester, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
1999 - present, Distinguished Professor of Health Care Ethics and Director Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC; Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Administration; Adjunct Professor, Doctoral Program in Public Policy; Adjunct Professor, Women’s Studies Program
Publications
Books
February, 1984 Women, Sex and the Law, Rowman and Allenheld, a subsidiary of Littlefield, Adams, and Co., 216 pp.; 2nd edition, 1987.
October, 1985 Ethics in Policy Analysis, Prentice-Hall, 200 pp.
January, 1989 Feminist Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction, Westview Press, 250 pp.; Korean edition, 1994.
November, 1991 Feminist Philosophies: Problems, Theories, and Applications, Prentice Hall, Co-edited by James Sterba and Janet Kourany, 406 pp; 2nd ed., 1997; 3rd ed., 1999.
February, 1993 Feminine and Feminist Ethics, Wadsworth, 239 pp.
January 4, 1994 Controlling Our Reproductive Destiny: A Technological and Philosophical Perspective, MIT Press, co-authored with Larry Kaplan, 400 pp.
February, 1994 Feminist Philosophy: Essential Readings in Theory, Reinterpretation, and Application, Westview Press, co-edited with Nancy Tuana, 549 pp.
January 4, 1995 Unity in Diversity, (Monograph, audio recorded) Knowledge Products, 110 pp.
January, 1996 Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Westview Press, 280 pp.
January, 1998 Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction, Westview Press, 360 pp., (Korean, Polish, Swedish editions, 1998); (Chinese edition, 2002).
January, 2001 Globalizing Feminist Bioethics: Crosscultural Perspectives, with Aida Santos and Gwen Anderson (coeditors), Westview Press, 368 pp.
September, 2004 Linking Visions: Feminist Bioethics, Human Rights, and the Developing World, coedited with Anne Donchin and Susan Dodds, Rowman and Littlefield, 264 pp.
Spring, 2007 New Perspectives in Health Care Ethics: An Interdisciplinary and Crosscultural Approach, Prentice Hall, 352 pp.
Journals
Summer, 1982 “Feminism, Pornography and Censorship.” The Journal of Social Theory and Practice (Summer, 1982): 1-17.
Summer, 1984 “The Chinese Legal Reform and its Limitations” co-authored with Paul K. K. Tong. Journal of Chinese Studies, vol. 1, no. 1.
Winter, 1986 “Liberty, Equality--Community?” Women's Review of Books, vol. 3, no. 4 (January, 1986).
Spring, 1986 “The Minneapolis Ordinance and the FACT Brief.” vol. 3, no. 8 Women's Review of Books (May l, 1986): 7-9.
Fall, 1987 “Women, Pornography, and the Law.” Academe (Sept./Oct. 1987): 14-28.
Spring, 1988 “Feminist Philosophy: Standpoints and Differences.” American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, (April, 1988): 9-11.
Winter, 1988 “The Legacy of Baby M.” Women's Review of Books, vol. 6, no. 3 (Dec. 1988): 17-18.
Fall/Winter, 1990 “The Overdue Death of a Feminist Chameleon: Taking a Stand on Surrogacy Arrangements.” Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 21, nos. 2 and 3 (Fall-Winter, 1990): 41-55.
Winter, 1991 “Feminist Justice: A Study in Difference.” Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 22, no. 3 (Winter 1991): 81-91.
Summer, 1991 “The Epistemology and Ethics of Consensus: Uses and Abuses of ‘Ethical’ Expertise.” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, vol. 16 (1991): 409-426.
Fall, 1991 “Love in the Classroom,” with Peter Beidler. Journal of Excellence in College Teaching, vol. 2 (Fall 1991): 53-70.
Winter, 1992 “Rationing Health Care.” Healthcare, vol. 1, no. 4 (February, 1992): 13, 16.
Winter, 1992 “Elizabeth Beardsley: More Than a Mentor.” Hypatia, vol. 7, no. 1 (Winter 1992): Preface.
Spring, 1992 “An Annotated and Comprehensive Bibliography for Feminist Thought.” Anima: The Journal for Human Experience, (1992): 30-77.
Spring, 1992 “The Personhood Debate: Towards a Reconciliation.” The World & I: A Washington Times Publication, vol. 7, no. 5 (May, 1992): 494-516.
Fall, 1992 “Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Resolving Gestational Conflict.” Journal of Theoretical Medicine, vol. 13, (1992): 329-335.
Spring, 1993 “Euthanasia: The Possibility of Dying a ‘Good’ Death.” The World & I: A Washington Times Publication, vol. 6, no. 3 (March, 1993): 369-383.
Spring, 1993 “A ‘Good’ Death Reconsidered.” The World & I: A Washington Times Publication, vol. 6, no. 3 (March, 1993): 409-413.
Fall, 1993 “An Exercise in Futility.” North Carolina Medical Journal, vol. 54, no. 8 (August, 1993): 1-6.
Fall, 1993 “Is There a Right to Health Care?” North Carolina Medical Journal, vol. 54, no. 9 (September, 1993): 2-7.
Fall, 1994 “Learning to Teach.” Co-authored with Peter C. Beidler. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, vol. 5, no. 1, (1994): 107-126.
Fall, 1994 “What's Distinctive About Feminist Bioethics?” American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine, vol. 94, no. 1 (Fall 1994): 122-124.
Spring, 1995 “Towards a Just, Courageous, and Honest Resolution of the Futility Debate.” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, vol. 20 (1995): 165-189.
Spring, 1995 “Feminist Jurisprudence.” Co-authored with Susan Peppers. American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy and Philosophy of Law (1995): 66-69.
Spring, 1996 “An Introduction to Feminist Approaches to Bioethics: Unity in Diversity.” The Journal of Clinical Ethics, vol. 7, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 13-19.
Spring, 1996 “Feminist Bioethics: Towards Developing a ‘Feminist’ Answer to the Gestational Motherhood Question.” Ed. Margaret Little. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, vol. 6, no. 1 (March, 1996): 37-52.
Summer, 1996 “An Introduction to Feminist Approaches to Bioethics: A Continuation.” The Journal of Clinical Ethics, vol. 7, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 150.
Summer, 1996 “Working Within Contradiction: The Possibility of Feminist Cosmetic Surgery.” Co-authored with Anna Kirkland. The Journal of Clinical Ethics, vol. 7, no. 2 (1996): 151-159.
Fall, 1996 “An Introduction to Feminist Approaches to Bioethics: A Continuation.” The Journal of Clinical Ethics, vol. 7, no. 3 (1996): 150.
Winter, 1996 “An Introduction to Feminist Approaches to Bioethics: Parting Reflections.” The Journal of Clinical Ethics, vol. 7, no. 4 (1996): 315-319.
Spring, 1997 “The Promises and Perils of Clinical Pragmatism.” Kennedy Institute of Ethics, vol. 7, no. 2 (March, 1997): 147-152.
Summer, 1997 “Feminist Perspectives on Empathy as an Epistemic Skill and Caring as a Moral Virtue.” The Journal of Medical Humanities, vol.18, no. 3 (Summer 1997): 153-168.
Spring, 1998 “The Ethics of Care: A Feminist Virtue of Care for Healthcare Practitioners.” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, vol. 23, no. 2 (1998): 131-152.
Spring, 1998 “A Feminist Interpretation of Engelhardt’s Bioethics: More a Moral Friend Than a Moral Stranger.” Ed. Robert Sade. Reason Papers. (1998): 60-74.
Summer, 1999 “Feminist Teachers, Graduate Students, and 'Consensual Sex': Close Encounters of a Dangerous Kind.” Teaching Philosophy, vol. 22, no. 2 (June 1999): 123-133.
Fall, 1999 “Dealing with Difference Justly: Perspectives on Disability.” Social Theory and Practice, vol. 23, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 519-530.
Winter, 1999 “Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.” Medical Ethics (Lahey Clinic in collaboration with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center). 1999.
Spring, 2000 “Dying in America.” Theoretical Medicine and Philosophy, vol. 21, no. 6 (December 2000): 1-7.
Spring, 2000 “Is a Global Bioethics Both Desirable and Possible? Some Feminist Perspectives.” Asian Women, vol. 10 (June 2000): 181-200.
Spring, 2002 “Teaching Bioethics in the New Millennium: Holding Theories Accountable to Actual Practices and Real People.” Ed. Lawrence McCullough. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, vol. 27, no. 4 (2002): 419-434.
Spring, 2002 “Proper Mates and Perfect Babies.” Genomics World (Daphne, AL: Pageants Publishing Inc., 2002): 1-8.
Summer, 2002 “Setting Organizational Ethics Within a Broader Social and Legal Context.” With George Khushf. Eds. George Khushf and Rosemarie Tong. Healthcare Ethics Forum, vol. 14, no. 2 (June, 2002): 77-85.
Fall, 2002 “Love’s Labor in the Health Care System: Working Towards Gender Equity,” Hypatia, vol. 7, no. 3 (2002): 200-213.
Spring, 2003 “The Consequences of Taking the Second Sexism Seriously.” Carol Quinn coauthor. Social Theory and Practice, vol. 29, no. 2 (Spring 2003): 233-246.
Fall, 2003 “Feminism and Feminist Bioethics: Search for a Measure of Unity in a Field With Rich Diversity.” Ed. Mairi Levitt. New Review of Bioethics, vol. 1, no. 1 (Fall 2003): 85-100.
Spring, 2004 “Out of Body Gestation: In Whose Best Interests?” Eds. Laura Kaplan and Carmella Epright. Philosophy in the Contemporary World, vol. 11, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2004): 67-76.
Fall, 2004 “Feminist Thought in Transition: Never a Dull Moment.” Ed. Susan Green Barger. Women’s Studies Special Issue. Western Social Science Journal (2004).
Fall, 2005 “Feminist Thought: Past Accomplishments, Present Tensions, and Future Opportunities.” Feminism in the Twenty-first Century. Ed. Gaile Pohlhaus. Proceedings of the Theology Institute, vol. 37. Villanova University Press (2005): 88-101.
Spring, 2006 “Competent Refusal of Nursing Care.” Hastings Center Report (March-April 2006): 19.
Book Chapters
Fall, 1982 “Incapacitation, Dangerousness, and the Scope of the Criminal Law.” Ethics, Public Policy, and Criminal Justice. Eds. Norman Bowie and Fred Ellison. West Germany: Oelgeschlager Press, 1982. 289-304.
Winter, 1985 “Sexual Harassment.” Women and Values: Readings in Recent Feminist Philosophy. Ed. Marilyn Pearsall. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1985. 148-166.
Spring, 1986 “Ethics and the Policy Analyst.” Confronting Values in Policy Analysis. Eds. Frank Fischer and John Forester. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 1986. 192-211.
Spring, 1987 “Toward an Ethics for Policy Experts.” Professional Ideals. Ed. Albert Flores. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1987. 121-134.
Winter, 1988 “The Ethics of Good Citizenship.” Foundations of American Citizenship: New Directions for Education. Washington, D.C.: Council of Chief State School Officers, 1988. 71-76.
Summer, 1988 “Three Incomparable Perspectives on Comparable Worth.” Ethical Theory and Business. Eds. Tom L. Beauchamp and Norman E. Bowie. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1988. 374-382.
Summer, 1988 “The Taming of the Technological Imperative: The Constitution in the Twenty-First Century.” Constitutionalism: The Philosophical Dimension. Ed. Alan S. Rosenbaum. Greenwood Press, 1988. 222-238.
Spring, 1989 “Till Death Do Us Part.” Everyday Ethics: Resolving Dilemmas in Nursing Home Life. Eds. R. Kane and A. Caplan. (Spring, 1989): 100-108.
Winter, 1990 “Incapacitation and the Scope of the Criminal Law.” Ethics and the Professions, Eds. David Appelbaum and Sarah Verone Lawton. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1990. 319-328.
Winter, 1991 “Living Wills,” Document for North Carolina Medical Society (1991).
Fall, 1991 “Women, Pornography, and the Law.” The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings. Ed. Allan Soble. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1991. 301-316.
Fall, 1991 “Pornography.” Harper and Row Reader, 3rd. ed. Eds. Wayne Booth and Marshall Gregory. New York: Harper and Row, 1991.
Fall, 1992 “The Overdue Death of a Feminist Chameleon: Taking a Stand on Surrogacy.” Reproductive Technology and Human Values. Ed. Ken Alpern. New York: Oxford, 1992. 277-298.
Winter, 1993 “Sexual Harassment.” Gender Basics. Ed. Anne Minas. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1993. 364-368.
Spring, 1993 “Women, Pornography, and the Law.” Classical Philosophical Questions. Ed. James Gould. New York: MacMillan, 1993.
Fall, 1994 “Compassion: The Liberal Virtue.” Problems and Conflicts Between Law and Morality: A Free Society. Waco, TX: J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, Baylor University, 1993.
Winter, 1995 “Feminist Perspectives and Gestational Motherhood: The Need for a Unified Legal Focus.” Reproduction, Ethics, and the Law: Feminist Perspectives. Ed. Joan Callahan. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995. 55-79.
Spring, 1995 “What's Distinctive About Feminist Bioethics?” Eds. Francoise Baylis, et.al. Health Care Ethics in Canada. Toronto: Harcourt Brace, 1996. 22-30.
Summer, 1995 “Feminine and Feminist Ethics.” Florida Bioethics Network’s Introduction to Medical Ethics and Hospital Ethics Committees. Florida Bioethics Network, 1995.
Fall, 1995 “Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Commentary on Making Peace in Gestational Conflicts.” Biomedical Ethics. Eds. Thomas A. Mappes and David DeGracia. NY: McGraw Hill, 1995. 473-477.
Spring, 1996 “Procreative Liberty: Beyond Liberal, Radical, and Cultural Feminist Assessments.” In the Company of Others: Perspectives on Community, Family, and Culture. Ed. Nancy Snow. Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995.
Spring, 1996 “Feminine and Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.” Feminist Bioethics: Beyond Reproduction. Ed. Susan Wolf. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996. 67-94.
Spring, 1996 “Maternal-Fetal Conflict: The Misguided Case for Punishing Cocaine-using Pregnant and/or Postpartum Women.” Punishment: Social Control and Coercion. Ed. Christine Sistare. New York: Peter Land, 1996. 151-178.
Fall, 1996 “A Feminist Perspective on Gamete Donation and Reception.” New Ways of Making Babies: The Case of Egg Donation. Ed. Cynthia Cohen. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1996. 138-155.
Fall, 1996 “Feminist Pedagogy: A Voice of One’s Own.” Inspiring Teaching. Ed. John K. Roth. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company, 1996. 176-187.
Winter, 1999 “Just Caring about Maternal-Fetal Relationships: The Case of Cocaine-Using Pregnant Women.” Embodying Bioethics. Eds. Anne Donchin and Laura Purdy. Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. 33-44.
Spring, 2000 “Duty to Die.” Biomedical Ethics Review: Is There a Duty to Die. Eds. Humber and James. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2000. 137-159.
Spring, 2000 “Feminist Ethics are Different.” Philosophical Questions. Ed. James Gould. Upper Saddle, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2000. 242-259.
Summer, 2000 “Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Commentary on Making Peace in Gestational Conflicts.” Biomedical Ethics (5th Edition). Eds. Thomas A. Mappes and David Degrazia. New York: McGraw Hill, 2000. 500-503.
Fall, 2000 “Justice for Here and Now or Then and There?” Social and Political Philosophy: Contemporary Perspectives. Ed. James Sterba. London: Routledge, 2000. 270-286.
Fall, 2000 “Confessions of a Winged Woman: Flying Free from a Constricting Cage.” Controversies in Feminism. Ed. James Sterba. Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. 225-234.
Fall, 2000 “A Millennial Feminist Vision.” Controversies in Feminism. Ed. James Sterba. Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. 173-196.
Winter, 2001 “Global Perspectives on Health Care: Some Feminist Visions.” Globalizing Feminist Bioethics: Crosscultural Perspectives. Eds. Rosemarie Tong. With Gwen Anderson and Aida Santos. Boulder: Westview Press, 2001. 27-36.
Spring, 2002 “Should Parents Seek to Perfect Their Children Genetically?” Ethical Issues in Maternal-Fetal Medicine. Ed. Donna Dickenson. London: Cambridge UP, 2002. 87-100.
Spring, 2002 “Gender Justice in the Health Care System: Past Experiences, Present Realities, and Future Hopes” (with Nancy Williams). Medicine and Social Justice. Eds. Rosamond Rhodes, Margaret Battin, and Anita Silvers. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002. 467-487.
Spring, 2003 “Living Globally: A Letter to Chinese Feminists.” Feminist Thought A More Comprehensive Introduction (Chinese Ed.) Boulder, Co: Westview. Press, 2003. i-v.
Spring, 2004 “Feminist Perspectives, Global Bioethics, and the Need for Moral Language Translation Skills," Linking Visions: Feminist Bioethics, Human Rights, and Developing World. Eds. Rosemarie Tong, Anne Donchin, and Susan Dodds. Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. 89-104.
Summer, 2004 “Taking on ‘Big Fat:’ The Relative Risks and Benefits of the War Against Obesity.” Public Health Ethics. Ed. Michael Boylan. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. 77-98.
Spring, 2005 “Negotiating Personal and Political Settlements with Breast Cancer: Women Finding Their Own Ways to Live with Human Contingency.” The History of Breast Cancer and Its Implications for Medical Practice. Ed. Mary Rawlinson. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press, 2005: 1-11.
Spring, 2005 “Feminist Teachers, Graduate Students, and ‘Consensual Sex’: Close Encounters of a Dangerous Kind.” A Place of General Wonder: Ethical Issues in Graduate Education. Ed. Samuel Gorovitz. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
Summer, 2005 “Traditional and Feminist Bioethical Perspectives on Gene Therapy: Is Germ-line Gene Therapy Really the Problem?” The Ethics of Inheritable Genetic Modification: A Dividing Line? Eds. John Rasko, Gabrielle O'Sullivan, and Rachel Ankeny. London: Cambridge Press Syndicate, 2004: 159-173.
Summer, 2005 “Towards a Feminist Global Bioethics: Addressing Women’s Health Concerns Worldwide.” Eds. Patricia Illingworth and Wendy E. Parmet. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2005: 476-483.
Winter, 2006 “Feminist Perspectives on Genetics: Converging and Diverging Views.” The ‘Ethical Turn’ as a Challenge to the Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. Eds. Ursula Konnertz, Hille Haker, Dietmar Mieth. Tubingen, Germany: University of Tubingen Press, 2006: 79-100.
Winter, 2006 “Beauty under the Knife: A Feminist Appraisal of Cosmetic Surgery.” Hilde Lindemann, co-author. Cutting to the Core: The Ethics of Contested Surgeries. Ed. David Benatar. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005: 183-193.
Spring, 2006 “Ongoing and Emerging Debates in U.S. Biomedical Research.” Ethics in Biomedical Research: International Perspectives. Eds. Matti Häyry, Tuija Takala, and Peter Herissone-Kelly. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2005: 3-18.
Spring, 2006 “Me, Myself, and I: Loneliness in the Post-Human World.” Aging, Genetic Technology, and the Future. Eds. C.Y. Read, R.C. Green, and M.S. Smyer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Spring, 2007 “Feminist Bioethics,” Medical Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Moral Issues in Medicine and Biology. Ed. David Steinberg. University Lebanon, N.H.: Press of New England, 2007 (in press).
Spring, 2007 “A Millennial Feminist Visionary.” Classical Philosophical Questions, 12th ed. Eds. James Gould and Robert Mulvaney. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2007 (in press).
Summer, 2007 “Out of Body Gestation: In Whose Best Interests?” Ectogensis: The Artificial Womb and the Future of Human Reproduction. Eds. Scott Gelfand and John Shook. Rodopi Press, 2007 (in press).
Newspapers, Newsletters, Bulletins, Reviews
Winter, 1980 Comment: “Structures of Deception,” Berkshire Review, Lying and Deception (January 1980): 82-86.
Winter, 1983 “Towards a More Responsive and Responsible Science--Advising Policy.” Berkshire Review, Expertise and the Politics of Risk (Winter 1983): 14-27.
Spring, 1991 “The Ethics of Medical Licensure.” Federation of State Medical Boards Bulletin (June, 1991): 174-183.
Spring, 1993 “Is There a Right to Health Care?” The Charlotte Observer, Sunday, May 3, 1993: 4H.
Winter, 1997 “On Not Being Indifferent.” Regional Review of the Bioethics Resource Group, vol. 7, no. 1 (Winter 1997): 1-2.
Summer, 1998 “Holistic, Alternative, Complementary, and Integrative Approaches to Healthcare: Evolution or Revolution?” Regional Review of the Bioethics Resource Group, vol. 8, no. 3 (1998): 1-3.
Spring, 1999 “Expanding the Roles and Responsibilities of Healthcare Ethics Committees: The Move from Clinical to Organizational Ethics.” Regional Review of the Bioethics Resource Group, (Spring, 1999); and Mecklenburg County Medical Society Bulletin, vol. 29, no. 6 (June/July, 1999): 18-19.
Summer, 1999 “The Ethics Committee in the Y2K: Roles and Responsibilities in the New Millennium.” Mecklenburg County Medical Society Bulletin, vol. 29, no. 7 (August/September, 1999): 2.
Fall, 2005 “Stem Cell Research.” Mecklenburg Medicine, vol. 35, no. 9 (October 2005): 10.
Spring, 2006 “Clinical Ethics Consultation: Bringing Gender into the Foreground of Case Discussion,” APA Newsletter on Feminism. Ed. Jessica P. Miller.
Spring, 2006 “The Virtue of Drawing Lines.” Mecklenburg Medicine, vol. 36, no. 3 (March 2006): 11-12.
Encyclopedia and Dictionary Entries
Summer, 1993 “Harriet Taylor.” Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Ed. Robert Audi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Spring, 1994 “Reproductive Technology: Surrogacy.” Ed. Warren Reich. Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University, 1993. 2205-2209.
Summer, 1995 “Feminist Philosophy.” Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Ed. Robert Audi. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. 262-264.
Fall, 1995 “Feminist Ethics.” Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics. Eds. Edward Freeman and Patricia Werhane. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997. 2003.
Spring, 1997 “Feminist Ethics.” Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics. Academic Press, Inc., 1997. 261-268.
Spring, 1997 “Feminist Ethics.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Women’s Studies. London: Routledge, 1997.
Spring, 2000 “Cultural Feminism.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories. Ed. Lorraine Code. London: Routledge, 1999. 113-115.
Spring, 2000 “Radical Feminism.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories. Ed. Lorraine Code. London: Routledge, 1999. 419-421.
Spring, 2000 “Ethics: Feminist.” Routledge International Dictionary of Women's Studies. London: Routledge. 2000. 13.
Winter, 2001 “Feminist Ethics.” The Concise Encyclopedia of the Ethics of New Technologies. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2001. 105-112.
Summer, 2001 “Feminist Theory.” International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. London: Elsevier Science, Ltd., 2000. 5484-5491.
Fall, 2002 “Sex Discrimination.” Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics. Ed. Hugh LaFollette. New York: Oxford UP, 2002. 220-244.
Fall, 2002 “Surrogate Motherhood.” Blackwell Companion to Applied Ethics. Eds. Christopher Wellman and Rey Frey. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. 369-381.
Spring, 2003 “Feminist Ethics.” Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Ed. George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2003. 275-279.
Winter, 2005 “Feminist Ethics.” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, 2nd Edition. Eds. Patricia H. Werhane and R. Edward Freeman. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2005. 191-196.
Spring, 2007 “Multicultural and Global Feminisms.” Gender and Education. Ed. Barbara J. Bank. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.
Spring, 2007 “Feminism and Feminist Theory.” Encyclopedia of Business Ethics. Ed. Robert Kolb. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2007.
Spring, 2007 “Feminist Ethics.” Encyclopedia of Business Ethics. Ed. Robert Kolb. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2007.
Fall, 2007 “Values.” Encyclopedia of American Philosophy. Ed. John Dr. Lachs and Robert Talisse. London: Routledge, 2007.
Online Publications
February 9, 1998-present “Feminist Ethics,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu.
July 30, 1998-present “Feminist Theory,” International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Reviews
1985 Bayles, Michael. Reproductive Ethics (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1984). In vol. 95, no.4 Ethics (July 1985): 785.
1985 Blank, Robert H. Redefining Human Life: Reproductive Technologies and Social Policy (Boulder Co.: Westview Press: 1984). In vol. 95, no. 4 Ethics (July 1985): 785.
1985 Rodman, Hyman, Lewis, Susan H., and Griffith, Saralyn. The Sexual Rights of Adolescents: Competence, Vulnerability, and Parental Control (N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1984). In vol. 95, no. 4 Ethics (July 1985): 784.
1985 O'Hagan, Timothy. The End of Law? A Critique of Utopian Jurisprudence (London: Basil Blackwell, 1984). In Legal Studies Forum (1985). 347-350.
1988 Bentham, David. Bureaucracy. Teaching Philosophy (1988).
1989 Fisher, Sue. In The Patient's Best Interests: Women and the Politics of Medical Decisions (New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1988). In vol. 99, no. 4 Ethics (July 1980): 687.
1990 Allen, Jeffner and Young, Iris Marion. The Thinking Muse (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989). In vol. 100, no. 3 Ethics (April, 1990): 696.
1992 Shanley Mary Lyndon and Pateman, Carole, eds. Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory (Penn State University Press, 1991). In vol. 102, no. 44 Ethics (July 1992): 425.
1992 Garry, Ann and Marilyn Pearsall, eds. Women, Knowledge and Reality, (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989). In vol. 7, no. 1 Hypatia (Winter 1992): 138-142.
1992 “Elizabeth Beardsley: More than a Mentor,” in vol. 7, no. 1 Hypatia (Winter 1992): Preface.
1993 Furst, Lilian R. and Graham, Peter. Disorderly Eaters: Texts in Self-Empowerment (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992). In vol. 12, no. 2 Literature and Medicine (Fall, 1993): 244-248.
1993 Riddle, John M. Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993). In Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences (1993).
1994 Campbell, Courtney S. What Price Parenthood? Ethics and Assisted Reproduction (Aldershot, GB: Dartmouth Publishing Co., 1992). In Religious Studies (1994).
1995 Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993). In vol. 105, no. 4 Ethics (July, 1995): 952-954.
1995 Wilkie, Tom. Perilous Knowledge: The Human Genome Project and Its Implications (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993). In vol. 105, no. 3 Ethics (April 1995): 691-692.
1997 Purdy, Laura. Reproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist Bioethics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996). In vol. 11, no. 1 Medical Humanities Review (Spring, 1997): 72-75.
1999 Archard, David. Sexual Consent (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1998). In vol. 109, no. 3 Ethics (April, 1999): 643.
1999 Weeks, Kathi. Constituting Feminist Subjects (Ithaca: NY: Cornell University Press, 1998). In vol. 110, no. 1 Ethics (October, 1999): 258.
1999 Walker, Margaret Urban. Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics (New York: Routledge, 1998). In vol. 14, no. 2 Hypatia (1999):121-124.
1999 Lublin, Nancy. Pandora's Box: Feminism Confronts Reproductive Technology (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, Inc., 1998). In vol. 13, no. 1 Medical Humanities Review (Spring 1999): 69-76.
1999 Clarke, Adele. Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences, and “the Problems of Sex” (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998). In vol. 13, no. 1 Medical Humanities Review (Spring 1999): 69-76.
1999 Silvers, Anita, David Wasserman, and Mary B. Mahowald. Disability, Difference, Discrimination: Perspectives on Justice (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998). In vol. 25, no. 3 Social Theory and Practice (Fall 1999): 519-531.
1999 Ellis, Ralph D. Just Results: Ethical Foundations for Policy Analysis (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1998). In vol. 33, no. 4 Journal of Value Inquiry (December 1999): 565-569.
2000 Arneil, Barbara. Politics & Feminism (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999). In vol. 57 Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (November 2000): 189.
2000 Zucker, Marjorie B. The Right to Die Debate (Greenwood Press, 1999). In Social Theory and Practice (2000).
2001 Jones, Anne Hudson and McLellan F. Jones Ethical Issues in Biomedical Research (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). In vol. 22, no. 4 Medical Humanities (Winter, 2001): 313-315.
2001 Kittay, Eva. Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (New York: Routledge, 1999). In vol. 2, no.2 Essays in Philosophy: A Biannual Journal (2001).
2001 Parens, Erik and Adrienne Asch, eds. Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2000). In vol. 20, no. 1 Politics and the Life Sciences (March 2001): 14-15.
2001 Thomas, David C. and Judith Lee Kissel, The Health Care Professional as Friend and Healer: Building on the Work of Edmund D. Pellegrino (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2000). In vol. 2, no. 1 Monash Bioethics Review (January, 2002): 61-63.
2003 O’Neil, Onora, Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics (London: Cambridge University Press, 2003) and A Question of Trust (London: Cambridge University Press, 2003). In vol.17, no. 1, Medical Humanities Review, 2003: 101-104.
2004 Dickenson, Donna, Risk and Luck in Medical Ethics (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2003). In vol. 30, Journal of Medical Ethics, 2004: 423-424.
2005 Quill, Timothy E., A Midwife Through the Dying Process: Stories of Healing & Hard Choices at the End of Life (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) and Lantos, John D., The Lazarus Case: Life-and-Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). In vol. 26, no. 2-3, Medical Humanities Review (Summer/Fall 2006): 199-202.
1999-2002 Co-coordinator of the International Network for Feminist Approaches to
Bioethics
2002-present Advisory Board of the International Network for Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
2003-2007 Chair, American Philosophical Association, Committee on the Status of Women
2003-2007 Board of Directors of the International Association of Bioethics
2005-present Board of Directors, Women’s Bioethics Project
1982 Williams Teacher of the Year, Williams College, Williamstown, MA.
1986 CASE National Professor of the Year (awarded by Carnegie Foundation and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education).
1987 Honorary Degree, Doctor of Laws, Marygrove College, Detroit, Michigan.
1988 - 1989 Visiting Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Davidson, College, Davidson, North Carolina.
1990 25th Year Reunion Speaker, Immaculate Heart of Mary High School, Westchester, Illinois.
1993 Honorary Degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, State University of New York, Oneonta, NY.
1993 Louise M. Olmstead Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Lafayette College, Easton, PA.
1993 Marquis Who's Who in American Education.
1994 Marquis Who's Who in the South and Southwest.
1994 Marquis Who's Who in America.
1995 Phi Beta Kappa Initiation, Washington and Lee.
1998 L. Stacy Davidson, Jr. Visiting Professor in Liberal Arts, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS.
2003 Two Thousand Notable American Women.
2003 Directory of American Scholars.
2002, 2004 UNC Charlotte Nominee for Max Gardner Award.
2004 2000 Outstanding Academics (International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England).
2004 Who’s Who of American Women.
2005 Leading Educators of the World.
1983 - 1986 Consultant to Project Galileo, a series of public interest films on topics such as the “greenhouse effect,” recombinant DNA, and toxic waste. Project head: Lee Richmond. Source of funding: NEH.
1986 Curriculum Review for Philosophy Department of Carlton College.
1986 Curriculum Review for Philosophy Department of Bowdoin College.
1988 Consultant to Economics Department at Ohio Wesleyan, “How to Teach Moral Dimensions of Public Policy.”
1988 Policy Writer for Division of Health Services Research and Policy, University of Minnesota, “Till Death Do Us Part...Married Life in a Nursing Home.”
1988 Policy Writer for Frank Graham Porter Early Childhood Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Ethics for Policy Writers: A Case Study,” P.L. 99-457 (1986).
1989 Ethics Consultant for New York State Electric & Gas Co.
1989 Women's Studies Consultant for Randolph-Macon College.
1989 Integrating Ethics into the Curriculum, Ohio Wesleyan University.
1990 Ethics Consultant for North Carolina Medical Society, Bioethics Committee (Living Wills, Assisted Suicide, HIV, Futility, Healthcare Reform).
1990 Ethics Consultant for Presbyterian Hospital, Charlotte, NC.
1991 Ethics Consultant for Cabarrus Hospital, Concord, NC.
1991 Ethics Consultant for Broughton Hospital, Morganton, NC.
1991 Ethics Consultant for NC Dept. of Human Resources, Division of Medical Assistance, Advance Directives Advisory Panel.
1991 Congressional Task Force on Health Care, Charlotte Task Force, Congressman Alex McMillan.
1991 Standards and Ethics Committee, Hospice of North Carolina.
1992 McMillan-Spratt Task Force on Health Care Policy, Resource Committee, Ethics Committee, North Carolina.
1993 National Advisory Board on Ethics in Reproduction, Washington, D.C.
1993 Hastings Center Project on Undergraduate Values Education, Hastings Center, Briarcliff Manor, NY.
1993 National Research Council, Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel.
1993 Women's Studies Consultant for St. Mary's College, St. Mary's City, Maryland.
1993 Values Consultant for Novo Nordisk (a drug firm) and Fleishman-Hillard, New York City.
1995 Evaluator for University of North Florida's Philosophy Department (Board of Regents Review), Jacksonville, Florida, Oct. 7-13.
1995 Evaluator for University of South Florida's Philosophy Department (Board of Regents Review), Tampa, Florida, Nov. 12-14.
1995 Evaluator for Rhodes College Philosophy Department, Memphis, Tennessee, Nov. 7-8.
1996 Evaluator for Union College Philosophy Department, Schenectady, New York, March 3-5.
1998 North Carolina Medical Society, Bioethics, Task Force on Managed Care.
1998 North Carolina Coalition on End-of-Life-Care, Hospice of the Carolinas.
1999 Evaluator for Hamilton College Philosophy Department, Hamilton, New York, February 15-16.
2000 Evaluator for St. Mary's College Philosophy and Religious Studies Department, St. Mary's City, Maryland.
2000 Ethics Consultant for Aetna United Health Care, Level II Appeals Committee.
2000 Evaluator for Claremont McKenna College, Philosophy and Religious Studies Department, Claremont, CA.
2001 Consultant for "Research Ethics in Mental Health Science Involving Ethnic Minority Children" for U.S. Public Health Service
2001, 2002 Advisory Board for Lincoln Center of Applied Ethics at Arizona State University.
2003
2002, 2003 Expert Review North Carolina Medical Board, Raleigh, NC.
2004
2002, 2003 Consultant to Charlotte Observer Health Reporter, Karen Garloch
2003 Evaluation for University of North Florida’s Philosophy Department (Board of Regents review), Jacksonville, Florida, March 13-14.
2003 Consultant for Project for the History of Care, Lilly Foundation, Warren Reich
Project Director, Georgetown University.
2003 Consultant for University Hospital, Charlotte, NC, “How to Set Up Your Hospital Ethics Committee”.
2003 Evaluator for Miami University, Philosophy Department, Oxford, Ohio.
2003 Evaluator for Central Florida University, Philosophy Department, Orlando Florida.
2004 Consultant for Future Structure of the American Philosophical Association, University of Delaware, Delaware.
2005 Consultant for International Association of Bioethics, Program Committee for Seminario Internacional Sobre Bioetica, Mexico City, Mexico, November 15-17, 2005.
2005 Consultant for International Association of Bioethics, Program Committee for International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB), “Feminist Bioethics as Social Practice, Women’s Health Rights as Human Rights,” August 15-17, 2006, Beijing, China.
2005 Consultant for Chesapeake Review, Inc., Columbia, MD, Chair of Conflict of Interest Committee.
2006 Co-chair for the North Carolina Institute of Medicine (NC IOM) Task Force on Pandemic Flu Epidemics. Leah Mash, MPH, Co-chair. Carmen Hooker Odem, Honorary Chair.
2006 Evaluator for St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Women’s Studies Program, St. Mary’s City, MD.
1987 Award Committee for Selection of CASE Professor of the Year.
1987, 1988, 1989 American Council of Learned Societies, Judge for Humanities Grants.
1988, 1989, 1990,
1994 Fulbright Awards, Judge for Philosophy Grants.
1991 Woodrow Wilson Center for Advanced Studies Awards, Princeton, NJ.
1994 National Endowment for Humanities (NEH), Judge for Institutional Curriculum Projects.
1996 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Humanities Focus Grant Judge.
1997, 1998, 1999, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Selection Committee for Projects on
2000, 2001, 2002 Ethical, Legal, Social Implications of Human Genome Project
2000 National Institutes of Health (NIH), Judge for Research Ethics Projects for Fogarty Center and Mentored Scientist Development Awards
2001, 2002, 2003, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Judge for Curricular Research Ethics
2004, 2005 Courses and Mentored Scientist Development Awards.
2003 National Institutes of Health (NIH), Judge for Health of the Population (HOP) Children and Families Research Ethics Study Section
2004, 2005 National Institutes of Health (NIH), Chair, Center for Scientific Review Special Emphasis Panel
2005, 2006 National Institute of Health (NIH), Judge for Small Business Innovation Research (Health of the Population)
Series Editor
Point/Counterpoint series, co-editor, James Sterba, 1990-present. The books in our series include: Political Correctness (Jan Narverson and Marilyn Friedman); Assisted Suicide (Susan Wolf, Doc Mayo, Peggy Battin); Gun Control (Lance Stell); Disability, Difference and Discrimination (David Wasserman, Anita Silvers, Mary Mahowald); The Death Penalty (Louis Pojman and Jeffrey Reiman); Sexual Harassment (Linda LeMonchek and Mane Hajdin); and Affirmative Action (Albert Mosley and Nicholas Capaldi).
New Feminist Perspectives series, Rowman & Littlefield, 1990-2000. The books in my series include: Claiming Reality: Phenomenology and Women's Experience; Evidence on Her Own Behalf: Women's Narrative as Theological Voice; Feminist Jurisprudence: The Difference Debate; Is Women's Philosophy Possible?; Manhood and Politics: A Feminist Reading of Political Theory; “Nagging” Questions: Feminist Ethics in Everyday Life; Rethinking Ethics in the Midst of Violence: A Feminist Approach to Freedom; Speaking from the Heart: A Feminist Perspective on Ethics; Take Back the Light: A Feminist Reclamation of Spirituality and Religion; Toward a Feminist Epistemology; Voluptuous Yearnings: A Feminist Theory of the Obscene; Women, Militarism, and War: Essays in History, Politics and Social Theory; Women, Sex, and the Law; Women and Spirituality, Second Edition; Rethinking Masculinity, Second Edition; Pandora's Box: Feminism Confronts Reproductive Technology; Analyzing the Different Voice: Feminist Psychological Theory and Literary Texts.
Editorial Boards
American Journal of Bioethics (University of Pennsylvania)
Bioethics (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
Cambridge Dictionary of Bioethics
Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Sex (Greenwood Press)
Hypatia (University of Oregon)
International Journal of Ethics (Nova Science Publishers)
Journal for Peace and Justice Studies (Villanova)
Journal of the Philosophy of Surgery and Medicine
Journal of Excellence in College Teaching (Miami University)
Journal of Social Philosophy
Advisory Boards
Advisory Board, Feminist Philosophy Series, (Oxford University Press).
Advisory Board, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (Baylor University).
Advisory Board, Texas Journal of Women and the Law (University of Texas Law School at Austin).
Advisory Board, Teaching Philosophy (University of Cincinnati).
Advisory Board, Essays in Philosophy: A Biannual Journal (Humboldt State University, Georgia).
Advisory Board, Women’s Bioethics Project (Seattle, Washington).
ManuscriptReviewer
1985 - present Cambridge University Press; Cornell University Press; Oxford Univ. Press; Rowman and Littlefield; Temple University Press; University Press of America; W. W. Norton & Co.; Wadsworth Publishing Co.; Westview Press; American Philosophical Quarterly; Ethics;Hastings Center Report; Hypatia; Journal of Clinical Ethics; Journal of Legal Studies; Journal of Philosophy and Medicine; Journal of Value Inquiry; Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; Journal on Excellence of College Teaching; Medical Humanities Review; Milbbank Quarterly; Social Science and Medicine; Teaching Philosophy.
EmpiricalStudies
1991 - 2000 Ethics Advisor for Estrogen Replacement in Arteriosclerosis (ERA) Trial, Data and Safety Monitory Board, Bowman Gray Medical School, Winston-Salem, NC, David Herrington, M.D. (P.I.).
Project Reviewer
1986 Annenberg/CPB Project, Washington, D.C.
FacultySeminars
1985 Faculty Seminar on Integrating Gender into the Curriculum, co-director, Lynda Bundtzen, Ford Foundation, $5,000, 1985-86.
1986 Faculty Seminar on Gender and Reason in Western Culture, co-director, Suzanne Graver, Williams College Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, $1,500.
1987 Participant in Social Construction of Sexuality, Williams College Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, $2,000.
1989 Participant in Invited Only “Future of Bioethics Conference,” director, Arthur Caplan, Lutsen, Minnesota.
1990 Participant in Invited Only “Future of Bioethics Conference,” director, Arthur Caplan, Lutsen, Minnesota.
1991 Participant in Invited Only “Future of Bioethics Conference,” Michael Grodin and George Annas (directors), Nantucket, MA.
1992 Faculty Seminar on Teaching Ethics Across the Curriculum, Baylor University, Waco, Texas.
1992 Participant in Invited Only “Future of Bioethics Conference,” Peggy Battin and Leslie Frances (directors), Jackson Hole, WY.
1993 Participant in Invited Only “Future of Bioethics Conference,” Taos, New Mexico.
1993 Participant in Invited Only Liberty Fund Conference,” Human Nature and Health Care,” directed by Dr. Baruch Brody, Houston, TX.
1993 Participant in Invited Only Liberty Fund Conference, “Liberty and Responsibility in the Practice of Medicine,” directed by Dr. Haavi Morreim, Key Biscayne, FL.
1994 Participant in Invited Only, “Future of Bioethics Conference,” Tom Beauchamp and Ruth Fader (directors), Bar Harbor, MN.
1994 Participant in Invited Only Liberty Fund Conference, “Honesty and Responsibility in the Practice of Medicine,” directed by Dr. Baruch Brody, Houston, TX.
1995 Instructor for Advanced Bioethics Course VI, Feminist Perspectives on Bioethics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
1995 Instructor for Women's Studies Faculty Development Seminar, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, “Feminist Theory and Pedagogy.”
1995 Participant in Invited Only “Future of Bioethics Conference,” Al Jonsen, director, Seattle, WA.
1995 Participant in Invited Only Liberty Fund Conference, “Capital Punishment,” directed by Eric Mark, Albuquerque, NM.
1997 Participant in Invited Only Liberty Fund Conference, “The Moral Practice of Medicine in a Free and Responsible Society,” directed by Dr. Baruch Brody, Houston, TX.
1997 Participant in Invited Only Liberty Fund Conference, “Future of Bioethics Conference,” directed by Loretta Kopelman, Hilton Head, SC.
1997 Participant in Invited Only Liberty Fund Conference, “Bad Habits and Responsibility,” directed by Lance Stell, Tucson, AZ.
1998 Participant in Invited Only Liberty Fund Conference, “Liberty, Tolerance and Social Sanction,” directed by George Khushf, Columbia, SC.
1998 Participant in Invited Only Liberty Fund Conference, “Liberty and Markets in Mill,” directed by Nick Capaldi, Indianapolis, IN.
1998 Participant in Invited Only, “Future of Bioethics Conference,” directed by Dr. Thomas Murray and Rebecca Dresser, J.D., Cape Cod, MA.
2001 Participant in Invited Only “Future of Bioethics Conference,” directed by Adrienne Asch, Tom Beauchamp and Ruth Faden, Pittsfield, MA.
2001 Participant in Invited Only Workshop on Research Ethics for Mental Health Science Involving Ethnic Minority Children and Youth, Fordham University, New York City, July 16-17, directed by Celia Fisher.
2003 Participant in Invited Only “Future of Bioethics Conference,” directed by Len Fleck, Belairre, MI.
2003 Participant in Invited Only “Beyond Abortion: Critical Bioethical Issues in Reproductive Health for the 21st Century,” First International Bioethics Colloquium (sponsored by Planned Parenthood), Snowbird, Utah.
Honors Examiner
1990 Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1990.
2001 University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Honors Program, Gina Gonzalez.
2003 University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Honors Program, Alan Thomas.
Graduate Thesis Advisees at UNC Charlotte
2003-2004 Ashley Dunham, Public Policy Program (PhD).
2003-2005 Stephanie Jenkins, Graduate Certificate Program in Philosophy.
2004-2006 Sat Ananda Hayden, Public Policy Program (PhD).
2004-2005 Leslie Dean, Graduate Certificate Program and MA in Philosophy.
2005-2006 Mary Jo Speer, Graduate Certificate Program and MA in Philosophy.
2005-2006 John Klevins, Graduate Program in Gerontology.
Dissertation Committee Member (Ph.D. Level)
1992 Sande Churchill, The Union Institute, “A Feminist Mapping of Thinking Styles in Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.”
1994 Myra Preston, The Union Institute, “Topographic Brain Mapping and Quantitative EEG.”
2000-2005 Teresa Cockerman, Department of Education, Administration, Research, and Technology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, “Creative Remedies for Violent Behavior in Public High Schools”.
2001 Barbara Secker, University of Toronto, “The Biomedicalization of Health Care Decision-Making.”
2001 Johanna Fisher, University of British Columbia, “The Ethics of Care.”
2002-2003 Hong Xu, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, “Liver Transplantation”.
2004 Toni Withrow, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, “Moral Perspectives on Internet Adoptions.”
Addresses Given
October 22, 1980 “Incapacitation, Dangerousness, and the Scope of the Criminal Law.” Center for Value Inquiry, University of Delaware, Forum on Ethics, Public Policy, and Criminal Justice.
February 1, 1981 “Corporate Morality,” Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA.
March 25, 1981 “Mental Abnormality as an Excusing Condition,” Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
September 14, 1981 “Women: Legislation, and the Budget,” Williams College, Williamstown, MA.
January 20, 1982 “The Future of Women's Studies,” debate with Professor Michael Levine, CUNY.
October 1, 1982 Panel discussion on “Moral Philosophy and Women's Lives,” 10th Anniversary of the Society for Women in Philosophy, Smith College.
January 14, 1983 “Toward a More Responsive and Responsible Science-Advising Policy,” Sixth Annual Little Three Faculty Colloquium, Amherst College, Amherst, MA.
April 9, 1983 “Feminism, Pornography, and Censorship,” Conference on Violent Pornography: Legal Censorship or Alternative Community Responses, Clark University, MA.
October 20, 1983 “Reforming Rape Law,” University of Maryland Law School, Baltimore, MD.
April 6, 1984 “The Future of Applied Ethics,” Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
October 25, 1984 “The Ethics of Caring,” Berkshire Women's Services Center, North Adams, MA.
November 2, 1984 Keynote Address, “Technology and the Liberal Arts Curriculum” to Colleges of Mid-America, Sioux Falls, SD.
December 27, 1984 “Praising & Blaming,” Society for Women in Philosophy, American Philosophy Association, Eastern Division, NY.
December 29, 1984 “Political Paternalism,” American Philosophy Association, Eastern Division, NY.
January 28, 1985 “The Politics of Porn: Can Feminists Walk the Line?” at St. Olaf's College, Northfield, MN.
April 11, 1985 “Pornography and the First Amendment,” Lafayette College, Easton, PA.
April 25, 1985 “The Feminization of Poverty,” Society for Women in Philosophy, American Philosophy Association, Midwestern Division, Chicago, IL.
June 24, 1985 “Technology and Procreation: How Far Should We Go?,” M.I.T., 1985 Workshop in Bio-engineering and Health Technology, Boston, MA.
October 1, 1985 “Reproductive Ethics,” Bennington College Speakers' Series, Bennington, VT.
October 1, 1985 Keynote address, “Integrating Ethics into Business” IBM's International Committee on Business Practices, White Plains, NY.
February 5, 1986 Will E. Organ Lecture, University of Texas Law School, “Feminism, Pornography, and the Law,” Austin, TX.
April 5, 1986 “Philosophical Perspectives on Pornography,” Union College, Schnectady, NY.
May 7, 1986 “Integrating Technology into the Curriculum,” New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Brunswick, NJ.
July 30, 1986 “Demographic and Economic Realities and Their Effect on Individual Ethics and Morality,” Council of Chief State School Officers, 1986 Summer Institute, Jackson, WY.
October 15, 1986 “Economic Justice for Women,” Northern Berkshire Business and Professional Women's Club, North Adams, MA.
October 25, 1986 “Women, Pornography and the Law,” Freshmen Parents' Day, Williams College, Williamstown, MA.
October 27, 1986 “Women, Pornography and the Law,” Smithsonian Series, Washington, D.C.
November 3, 1986 “Pornography After the Meese Commission,” College of Charleston, Charleston, SC.
December 27, 1986 “The New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies,” Eastern Division, American Philosophy Association, Boston, MA.
February 13, 1987 “On Bringing the Two Cultures Together,” Conference on Technology Education, Trenton State College, NJ.
March 6, 1987 “Feminism, Pornography and Sexuality,” Union College, NY.
March 8, 1987 “The Baby M Case,” Bennington College, Bennington, VT.
March 11, 1987 “On Teaching Ethics in a Pluralistic Society,” Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston, MA.
March 20, 1987 “Quality of Life in a High-Tech Society,” Berkshire Community College Conference on Technology, North Adams, MA.
March 27, 1987 “Economic Justice, Free Choice, and Gender Difference,” American Philosophy Association, San Francisco, CA.
April 9, 1987 “Testing the Limits of King Solomon's Wisdom: The Case of the Surrogate Mother,” The Blanchard William Means Memorial Lecture, Trinity College, CT.
May 2, 1987 “A Critique of Alan Soble's Marxism, Feminism, and the Future of Sexuality,” American Philosophy Association, Chicago, IL.
May 23, 1987 “Commencement Address” at St. Andrew's Preparatory School, Barrington, RI.
May 28, 1987 “Ethics for Development Officers,” Council for Advancement and Support of Education, University of Kentucky, KY.
June 22, 1987 “Values in the Curriculum,” Council of Chief State School Officers, Boston, MA.
June 24, 1987 “On Teaching in a Democratic Society,” We The People Celebration, Philadelphia, PA.
July 14, 1987 “Overt, Covert, and Subtle Sex Discrimination,” CASE Assembly, Boston, MA.
October 7-9, 1987 The Belgum Memorial Lectureship, I “Feminist Public Policy,” II “Feminist Jurisprudence,” III “Feminist Ethics” at St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN.
October 16, 1987 “The Joys of Teaching,” Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
November 2-5, 1987 Annual Philosophy Perspective Lecture Series, “Feminist Philosophy: Three Chapters,” Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA.
November 11, 1987 “King Solomon and the Surrogate Mother,” St. Vincent's Hospital, Boston, MA.
November 13, 1987 “Teaching Private, Professional, and Public Morality,” Miami University, Lilly Foundation Conference on Liberal Arts, Oxford, OH.
December 2, 1987 Keynote Address, “Technology's Promises and Threats,” Northwest Regional Consortium for the Improvement of Science and Math Education,” North Adams State College, North Adams, MA.
January 8, 1988 “Varying Feminist Perspectives on Surrogate Motherhood,” The Association of American Law Schools 1988 Meeting, Jan. 7-10, 1988, Miami, FL.
February 11, 1988 “The Commodification of Baby M.,” Regis College, Boston, MA.
February 24, 1988 Keynote Address, “Effective Teaching/Effective Learning,” Pedagogy Conference, Framingham State College, Framingham, MA.
March 7, 1988 “The Ethics of Contraceptive Technology,” Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany, NY.
March 29, 1988 “On Contracting Surrogate Mothers,” Hamilton College, NY.
May 6, 1988 “Women, Pornography, and the Law,” Salisbury School, Salisbury, CT.
May 12, 1988 “Contemporary Ethics, Women's Situation, and the Political System,” a major address in a lecture/discussion series entitled, “Liberty Stepdaughters: Women, the Constitution and Citizenship,” Center for Women's Studies, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
May 26, 1988 Principal Speaker at the Curriculum Workshop for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Education, on “Foundations of American Citizenship: A New Direction for Education Graduates,” Stonehill College, Easton, MA.
September 19, 1988 “Teaching and Publishing in the 80s,” Bentley College, Waltham Massachusetts, Faculty Development Project, Waltham, MA.
September 29-30, 1988 “Pains and Pleasures of Teaching,” Pedagogy Seminar, Ohio University, Athens, OH.
October 7-9, 1988 Chair of Panel on “Revising Notions of Work,” Conference on Explorations in Feminist Ethics, Theory and Practice, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN.
October 27, 1988 “Reproductive Technology: Does Contracted Motherhood Have a Future?,” Wilkes College, Wilkes Barre, PA.
November 6, 1988 Closing Speaker, Lilly Foundation Conference on Pedagogy, “Feminist Pedagogy,” Miami University, Oxford, OH.
November 20, 1988 “What Are Friends For?,” Phillips Exeter Academy.
January 16, 1989 “Is There a Good Legal Remedy for Contracted Motherhood?,” Davidson College, Davidson, NC.
February 16, 1989 “Nature and/or Nurture: What Makes a Parent a Parent?” Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO.
February 27, 1989 “Infertility: Its Social Construction and Ethical Implications,” Colgate College, Hamilton, NY.
March 6, 1989 “What Makes an Ethic Feminist?” Address to the Faculty of the Center for Special Studies, Davidson College, Davidson, NC.
March 27, 1989 “On Being An Ethical Policy Analyst,” Davidson College, Davidson, NC.
April 5, 1989 “The Challenges of the New Reproductive Technologies to the Family,” Bowdoin College, New Brunswick, ME.
April 10, 1989 “Women's Ethics,” High Point College, Alpha Chi Induction, High Point, NC.
April 12, 1989 “Changing Conceptions of Parenthood,” Southwestern Medical School, Dallas/Fort Worth, TX.
May 3-4, 1989 “For Better or for Worse: The New Reproductive Technologies,” GTE Lectureship, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
May 6, 1989 “How Do You Get There From Here?” Keynote for Workshops on Contemporary Women at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, Rowan, NC.
June, 1989 “Rationing Health Care: An Ethical Analysis,” Second Annual Speas Colloquium, Davidson College, Davidson, NC.
October, 1989 “Feminist Perspectives on Medicine and Reproductive Technology,” University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
November, 1989 “Love in the Classroom,” Lilly Conference on College Teaching, University of Miami, Oxford, OH.
November, 1989 “Feminist Ethics,” Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.
February, 1990 “The Technological Fix”, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY.
March 21, 1990 “Feminist Perspectives on the New Reproductive Technologies,” Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Claremont McKenna College, CA.
March 23, 1990 “The Future of the Family: The Challenge of the New Reproductive Technologies,” San Diego State University, GTE Lecture Series.
March 30, 1990 “Feminist Pedagogy,” University of South Carolina, Faculty Forum, Columbia, SC.
March 31, 1990 “Right to Privacy Analysis,” American Philosophy Association, Los Angeles, CA.
April 3, 1990 “The Academy in the Year 2000,” Honors Keynote Speaker Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AR.
April 23, 1990 “Feminist Political Philosophy,” Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, NC.
May 16, 1990 “The Ethics of Withdrawing Treatment: Kidney Dialysis,” (with Lance Stell) Annual Meeting of Charlotte's Ethics Committees, Mercy Hospital, Charlotte, NC.
June 7, 1990 “Weaving the Personal into the Professional: Pedagogical Risk Taking,” Keynote Speaker at University of Wisconsin's Faculty Retreat, Green Bay, WS.
July 20, 1990 “The Ethics of AIDS,” North Carolina/South Carolina Task Force on AIDS, Rock Hill, SC.
August 31, 1990 “Teaching Values Across the Curriculum,” Keynote Speaker, Hiram College, Hiram, OH.
September 5, 1990 “Kaleidoscopic Ethics: Seeing the Real Order in Apparent Chaos,” Keynote Speaker, National Colloquium Series III: Ethics, Citizenship and Public Policy, Ohio Wesleyan University, OH.
September 19, 1990 “The Ethical Implication of Nancy Cruzan's Case,” Presbyterian Hospital Ethics Committee, Charlotte, NC.
October 3, 1990 “The Ethics of Hospice Care,” Hospice of NC Conference on Hospice Care, Hendersonville, NC.
October 5, 1990 “Praising and Blaming,” Memorial Lecture in honor of Elizabeth Lane Beardsley, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
November 16, 1990 “Celebration of Teaching,” Keynote Speaker at GCCCU Awards, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
November 16, 1990 “The New American Teacher-Scholar: Response to Ernest Boyer” of the Carnegie Foundation, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
November 17, 1990 “Learning to Teach” with Pete Beidler, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
November 18-19, 1990 “The Future of Medical Ethics,” at the Hastings Center, Briarcliff Manor, NY.
November 29, 1990 “Technology and Contracted Motherhood,” St. Andrew's Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, NC.
February 15, 1991 “Taking a Stand on Surrogacy Arrangements,” Philosophy Department's Speakers' Series, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
March 23, 1991 “Russian Feminism,” Panel Chair, Annual Meeting of Southern Conference of Slavic Studies, Savannah, Georgia.
April 26, 1991 “The Ethics of Medical Licensure,” Annual Meeting of the Association of State Medical Boards of the United States, Seattle, WA.
May 8, 1991 “The Overdue Death of a Feminist Chameleon: Taking a Stand on Surrogacy Arrangements,” Plenary Address at The Fifth Annual Deemer Symposium on Ethics and the Professions, Hiram College, Hiram, OH.
May 21, 1991 “Ethical Implications of Limiting Extraordinary Medical Care,” Extraordinary Medical Care Symposium at Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC.
May 28, 1991 “Decisions Regarding Disabled Newborns,” Seventh Annual Prenatal Nursing Seminar, Presbyterian Hospital, Charlotte, NC.
September 19, 1991 “Learning to Teach Undergraduates in the 1990s,” Keynote Address to Ohio State University's Teaching Assistants,” Columbus, OH.
September 19, 1991 “Feminist Pedagogy,” Women Professor's Forum, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
September 30, 1991 “Reproductive Rights and Responsibility,” East Carolina University Medical School, Greenville, NC.
September 30, 1991 “Feminist Ethics and Reproductive Rights,” East Carolina University, Women's Studies Program, Greenville, NC.
October 11, 1991 “Ethical Implications of the Patient Self-Determination Act,” Practical, Legal, and Ethical Aspects of Patient Self-Determination in Health Care Conference, Bowman-Gray Medical School, Winston-Salem, NC.
November 16, 1991 “Power in the Classroom,” Lilly Conference on College Teaching, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
November 17, 1991 “The Academy in the Year 2000; Shattered Heap or Community-in-Diversity?” Lilly Conference on Teaching, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
November 19, 1991 “Reproductive Technology and Contracted Mothers,” Arkansas College, Batesville, AK.
January 31, 1992 “Euthanasia,” Baylor University, Waco, TX.
March 7, 1992 “When Feminist Fact Meets Legal Theory,” Second Annual Texas Journal of Women and Law Conference, Austin, TX.
March 9, 1992 “Ethics in Nursing,” Keynote Speaker, Annual Alumni Associates Meeting for School of Nursing, Presbyterian Hospital, Charlotte, NC.
March 13, 1992 “Caring: Feminine Virtue or Feminist Vice,” Keynote Speaker for Southeastern Women's Studies Association, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
March 30, 1992 “Feminine and Feminist Ethics,” Philosophy Forum, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
April 24, 1992 “Medical, Legal, and Ethical Approaches to Treatment Conundrums,” North Carolina Bar Association Health Law Section Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC.
April 29, 1992 “Ethical Issues in Chronic, Severe, and Catastrophic Illnesses” (with Larry Churchill and John Lincourt), Cabarrus Hospital, Concord, NC.
April 30, 1992 “The Ethics of Health Care Reform.” Annual Meeting of Presbyterian Hospital's Board of Trustees,” Pinehurst, NC.
May 14, 1992 “The Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project,” IBM, Charlotte Technical Symposium V, Charlotte, NC.
June 1, 1992 “Ethics: Methodological Approaches to Medical Ethics,” NEH Faculty Seminar, Queens College, Charlotte, NC.
June 14, 1992 “Motivation in the Classroom,” Faculty College, University of Wisconsin, Marionette, WS.
July 16, 1992 “Death, Dying, and Clinical Ethics,” Wilkes Regional Medical Center, North Wilkesboro, NC.
July 30, 1992 “Feminine and Feminist Approaches to Ethics,” Keynote, North American Society for Social Philosophy International Conference, Davidson, NC.
October 15, 1992 “Feminine and Feminist Ethics,” SUNY, Oneonta, NY.
October 16, 1992 “Justice and the Healthcare System,” Conference on Current Ethical Issues in Healthcare: An Update,” Bowman-Gray Medical School/Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.
October 21, 1992 “Physicians' Role in Constructing a Just Healthcare System,” Piedmont Association of Gynecologists and Obstetricians, Hickory, NC.
November 3, 1992 “The U.S. Healthcare System and Presidential Politics,” Knight Program in Applied Ethics, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC.
November 5-6, 1992 “Euthanasia: The Possibility of a 'Good Death,'“ Rothermal Foundation Seminar, Presbyterian Church, New Bern, NC.
November 18, 1992 “The Law and Euthanasia,” Wake Forest Law School, Winston-Salem, NC.
November 20, 1992 “Rationing Life, Death, and Health Equitably: A Gender-Based Analysis,” American University, Washington, DC.
January 21, 1993 “Feminine and Feminist Ethics: A Distinction that Makes a Difference,” Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA.
January 29, 1993 “Health Care Reform: Is Rationing Inevitable,” Medical Ethics Seminar for School of Nursing, Davidson County Community College, Lexington, NC.
February 9, 1993 “Carol Gilligan: How Different is Her Different Voice,” Seminar for Lehigh Valley Women's Studies Coalition, Lafayette College, Easton, PA.
February 23, 1993 “The Feminine Ethics of Gilligan and Noddings: How Caring Should Women Be?” Lafayette College, Easton, PA.
February 27, 1993 “Is There a Right to Healthcare?” Keynote speaker, North Carolina Medical Society, Spring Conference, Raleigh, NC.
March 10, 1993 “What Kind of Pornography Degrades Women?” Chaplain's Brown Bag Lunch, Lafayette College, Easton, PA.
March 18, 1993 “Ethical Decisionmaking: Principles, Structures, and Sensitivities,” School of Social Work, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
March 19, 1993 “The Impact of AIDS in NC: A Leadership Conference to Address the Epidemic,” Greensboro, NC.
March 24, 1993 “The Health Care Imperative,” North Carolina Legislative Committee on Health Care Reform, Raleigh, NC.
March 29, 1993 “Feminine and Feminist Ethics,” Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN.
March 30, 1993 “Feminist and Lesbian Approaches to the Right and Good: Partisan Politics or Universal Ethics?” Lafayette College, Easton, PA.
April 1, 1993 “The Moral Dimensions of Health Care Reform,” Cabarrus County Medical Society, Concord, NC.
April 3, 1993 “Gender, Research and Health Care,” Women, Health Care and Ethics Conference, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
April 5, 1993 “Women's Issues in Law and Morality,” Law and Morality Conference, Baylor University, Waco, TX.
April 9, 1993 “Feminine and Feminist Ethics: A Distinction that Makes a Difference,” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
April 14, 1993 “Recent Developments in Feminist Thought,” Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA.
April 20, 1993 “A Critique of the Feminist Anti-Pornography Campaign,” Lehigh Valley's Women's Studies Research Group, Lafayette College, Easton, PA.
May 4, 1993 “Age-Based Rationing and Euthanasia,” School of Social Medicine, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC.
May 10, 1993 “Women's and Men's Reproductive Moral Concerns About Reproductive Technology: A Feminist Analysis,” GTE Speaker, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY.
May 11, 1993 “Is There a Right to Health Care?” Forsyth-Stokes-Davie County Medical Society, Winston-Salem, NC.
June 27, 1993 “Feminist Bioethics,” Fifth Annual Bioethics Retreat, Taos, NM.
July 29, 1993 “Towards a Broader and Deeper Process of Bioethical Decisionmaking: Challenges to the Tradition,” Conference on Bioethics Committees, Adams Mark Hotel, Charlotte, NC.
October 1, 1993 “Bioethical Concerns About Genetic Technology and Assisted Reproduction,” Twelfth Annual Conference, Quest for Excellence in Reproductive Health, Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
October 28, 1993 “The Perils of Making Perfect People,” Wesleyan College, Macon, GA.
November 5, 1993 “Ethical Problems in the Recruitment, Screening, Counseling, and Matching of Oocyte Donors and Recipients,” National Advisory Board on Reproductive Ethics, ACOG, Washington, DC.
November 14, 1993 “Death in the Classroom” (with Pete Beidler), Lilly Conference on Teaching, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
December 28, 1993 “Feminist Pedagogy,” Feminist Contributions to Value Inquiry, American Society for Value Inquiry, American Philosophy Association, Atlanta, GA.
December 30, 1993 “Some Practical Implications of Feminist Ethics,” Society for the Study of Women Philosophers, American Philosophy Association, Atlanta, GA.
January 29, 1994 “Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Technology Development and Applications: The Breast Cancer Paradigm,” College of American Pathologists Foundation, Ritz-Carlton, Washington, DC.
January 30, 1994 “Ethics of Advanced Care Directives,” Charlotte American Bar Association, City Club, Charlotte, NC.
March 24, 1994 “Feminine, Feminist, and Lesbian Ethics,” Trinity College, Burlington, VT.
April 20, 1994 “Feminist Bioethics: Towards Better Medical Practice,” University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.
May 5, 1994 “Some Feminist Concerns About Genetic Screening, Counseling, and Therapy,” for the Human Genome Project: Ethical Issues, American Philosophy Association, Central Division, Kansas City, MO.
May 25, 1994 “Women's Studies and Religious Studies: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue,” College Theological Society 40th Annual Meeting, St. Mary's College, South Bend, IN.
June 27, 1994 “What's Distinctive About Feminist Approaches to Bioethics?” Sixth Annual Bioethics Meeting, Bar Harbor, ME.
July 19, 1994 “Crosscultural Issues in Bioethics,” Bioethics Resource Group's Conference for Ethics Committees, Charlotte, NC.
July 19, 1994 “Towards More Ethical Ethics Committees,” Keynote Address, Bioethics Resource Group's Conference for Ethics Committees, Charlotte, NC.
January 20, 1995 “Feminist Bioethics,” Philosophy Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
January 21, 1995 “The Frustrations and Joys of Teaching,” Elmhurst College Annual Faculty Retreat, Elmhurst, IL.
January 30, 1995 “Assisted Reproduction and the Future of the Family,” GTE Speaker, Furman, Greenville, SC.
March 6, 1995 “Feminist Perspectives on Reproduction: Is There a 'Feminist' Answer to the Gestational Motherhood Question,” Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
March 15, 1995 “Feminist Bioethics: A Challenge to the Tradition,” Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.
March 16, 1995 “Genetic Technology and Assisted Reproduction: Some Ethical Concerns,” Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.
June 17, 1995 “Is It Possible to Shape a Feminist Policy on Any Biomedical Issue?” Future of Bioethics Conference, Seattle, WA.
October 12, 1995 “Is a 'Good' Death Possible?” University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL.
November 2, 1995 “Feminist Bioethics: Moving from Philosophical Theory to Political Practice,” Institutes for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
November 18, 1995 “The Frustrations, Joys, Vices and Virtues of Teaching,” Lilly Conferences on Teaching, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
March 7, 1996 “Feminine and Feminist Ethics,” Phi Beta Kappa Speaker, Hollins College, Roanoke, VA.
March 15, 1996 Panel Moderator for “Medical Ethics in a Managed Health Care Setting,” Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.
March 16, 1996 “Futility and Managed Care, Medical Ethics in a Managed Care Setting,” Bowman Gray Medical School, Winston-Salem, NC.
March 20, 1996 “What's Distinctive about Feminist Bioethics?” Phi Beta Kappa Speaker, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA.
April 10, 1996 “What Sort of People Should There Be?” Phi Beta Kappa Speaker, American University, Washington, D.C.
April 15, 1996 “Genetics and Human Destiny,” UNC Greensboro, Greensboro, NC.
October 24, 1996 “Faith, Health, and Ethics in Medical Care,” Pastoral Care Grand Rounds, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC.
November 4, 1996 “The Ethics of Assisted Reproduction,” Guilford College, Greensboro, NC.
February 17, 1997 “Reproductive Technology and the Future of Our Progeny,” Phi Beta Kappa Speaker, Duke University, Raleigh, NC.
March 5, 1997 “Is Assisted Suicide a Feminist Issue?” Phi Beta Kappa Speaker, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
March 6, 1997 “Is A Feminist Bioethics Desirable?” University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
April 13, 1997 “A Lonely New World: Me, Myself and I,” Phi Beta Kappa Speaker, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.
July 30, 1997 “Genetic Screening, Counseling and Therapy: Doing the Least Harm and Most Good,” Fifth Annual Bioethics Resource Group Conference, Charlotte, NC.
September 6, 1997 “Public Experimental Research Forum,” Queens College, Charlotte, NC.
September 23, 1997 “Feminist Issues in Human Genetics: Negotiating the Boundary between Choice and Control,” Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.
October 1, 1997 “Redesigning Ourselves, Engineering Our Children: The Ethics of Genetics,” University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC.
October 9, 1997 “Dying in the Third Millennium,” Bradley Institute Address, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC.
October 27, 1997 “A Feminist Perspective on Prenatal Harm,” Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
November 22, 1997 “If I Were to Die Tomorrow, What Would I Say Today,” Annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching, Miami University, Oxford, OH.
January 9, 1998 “Women's Health Issues,” Pitts Memorial Lectureship, Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Health Administration and Policy, Charleston, SC.
February 4, 1998 “A Feminist Perspective on Gamete Donation and Reception,” Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar in Medical Ethics and Humanities, University of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN.
February 4, 1998 “The Challenges of Multicultural and Global Feminism,” Women's Studies Speakers Series, University of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN.
February 5, 1998 “A Feminist Virtue Ethics of Care for Healthcare Practitioners,” 'Ethics at Lunch' Series for Medical Students, University of Indiana Medical School, Indianapolis, IN.
February 16, 1998 “Healthcare Professionals for the New Millennium,” AED Society Induction, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS.
March 16, 1998 “Feminist Perspectives on the Perfect Baby,” UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, Philosophy Research Forum.
March 24, 1998 “The Theory and Practice of Feminist Bioethics,” Philosophy Forum, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS.
April 13, 1998 “Conflicting Perspectives on the Perfect Baby,” Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA.
April 18, 1998 “The Future of Feminist Bioethics,” Keynote Speaker, Society for Health and Human Values, Youngstown, OH.
July 16, 1998 “The Ethics of Rationing,” Pastoral Care Grand Rounds, Carolina Medical Center, Charlotte, NC.
August 1, 1998 “Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment: The Jane Gallop Controversy,” Plenary Address for Annual teaching Philosophy Conference, Mansfield University, Mansfield, PA.
October 20, 1998 “Attending to Differences at the Bedside and Around the Policy table: Diversity's Challenge to Medical Practice,” Gaston Memorial Hospital, Gastonia, NC.
October 22, 1998 “Alternative Medicine: Medical and Legal Boundaries,” Sixth Annual Bioethics Resource Group Conference, Charlotte, NC.
October 26, 1998 “Medicine for the New Millennium,” Mecklenburg County Medical Society, Fall Forum, (Keynote) Charlotte, NC.
November 1, 1998 “Making Perfect Babies: Science as Usual or Faustian Experiment?,” Rothermel Foundation Annual Forum, New Bern, NC.
December 10, 1998 “Disability, Genetics, and the 'Black Stork': An Encounter Between Two Millennia,” Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical School, Kansas City, KA.
December 11, 1998 “Impact of Gender on Healthcare and End-of-Life Decisions,” The Ed Bixby Institute Research Medical Center, Kansas City, KA.
March 16, 1999 “The Evolution of Women's Rights,” Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC.
March 23, 1999 “Conflicting Perspectives on Making Perfect Babies,” Mary Baldwin College, Phi Beta Kappa Speaker, Staunton, VA.
April 8, 1999 “The Legal and Ethical Boundaries for Complementary and Alternative Medicine,” Family Practice Seminar, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.
April 22, 1999 “Drugs, Moms, and Babies: What is the Real Problem?” Annual United Way Health & Human Services Institute, Charlotte, NC.
May 4, 1999 “Ethical Challenges of HIV/AIDS,” 1999 Spring HIV/AIDS Interdisciplinary Continuing Education Program, Northwest AHEC, Winston-Salem, NC.
May 12, 1999 “Ethics Between the Generations: Negotiating Our Healthcare Resources Fairly,” Spring Symposium, Carolinas Healthcare System, Charlotte, NC.
May 13, 1999 “The Human Genome Project: Ethical Challenges for Technical Minds,” 12th Annual Symposium, IBM, Charlotte, NC.
June 17, 1999 “Globalizing Feminist Bioethics,” 12th Annual Bioethicists Summer Retreat, Homestead Inn, Hot Springs, VA.
July 28, 1999 “Ethics for Case Managers,” Mecklenburg County Health Department, Charlotte, NC.
October 2, 1999 “The Desirability and Feasibility of Achieving Consensus (Or Something Like It) in Feminist Bioethics,” The USF Feminist Ethics Revisited Conference, Tampa, FL.
October 5, 1999 “Trying to Make a Baby Happen: Knowing When to Start and Stop,” Sixth Annual Perinatal Conference, Charlotte, NC.
October 21, 1999 “Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Moral Practice of Medicine,” Bradley Institute, Belmont Abbey, Belmont, NC.
November 12, 1999 “Is A Global Bioethics Both Desirable and Possible? Some Feminist Perspectives,” Feminist Medical Ethics Conference, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
November 13, 1999 “Why Bioethics Needs a Global Perspective,” University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, Des Moines, IA.
November 17, 1999 “The Eugenics-Genomics Debate: Old Lessons for the New Millennium,” Wilmington Medical Society, Wilmington, NC.
November 30, 1999 “Pregnant Women Who Use and Abuse Drugs: Moral and Social Issues,” OB/GYN and Reproductive Sciences Grand Rounds, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Pittsburgh, PA.
November 30, 1999 “Why We Don't Have a Duty to Die: A Gendered Analysis,” Bioethics Grand Rounds, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Pittsburgh, PA.
November 30, 1999 “Globalizing Bioethics: Some Feminist Perspectives,” Center for Medical Ethics and Health Law Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Pittsburgh, PA.
December 8, 1999 “Bioethics Worldwide: The Problem of Justice,” Center for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
January 21, 2000 “Feminist Perspectives on Children’s Oral Health: A Matter of Just Caring,” Surgeon General's Seminar on Ethics and Oral Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. (Commissioned Paper)
February 2, 2000 “Should Parents Perfect Their Children?,” Philosophy Day Speaker, University of Indiana, South Bend, IN.
February 2, 2000 “Is There a Duty to Die?,” Faculty Seminar, University of Indiana, South Bend, Indiana.
February 10, 2000 “Genetic Enhancement: When Is ‘Good’ Good Enough?,” Phi Beta Kappa speaker, Randolph-Macon College, Lynchburg, VA.
February 14, 2000 “Shaping a Teachable Feminist Bioethics,” Furman University, Greenville, SC.
February 26, 2000 “New Compass Headings: The Shift from Clinical Ethics to Organizational Ethics in Health Care and How to Navigate It,” (with John Lincourt) Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Washington D.C.
April 15, 2000 “Attending to Difference Carefully: Navigation the Cross-Cultural Currents of Complementary and Alternative Medicine,” The Humanities in Medical Education: A Southeastern Bioethics Conference, USC Center for Bioethics, Columbia, SC.
April 20, 2000 “Faith and Ethics in 2001,” Carolinas Medical Center, Spirituality and Healing Pastoral Care Series, Charlotte, NC.
May 5, 2000 “Why We Shouldn't Make Perfect Babies,” Philosophy Colloquium Series, Fresno City College, Fresno, CA.
May 12, 2000 Keynote address “Growing Old: Again America's Ethical Obligations to Older Adults,” Conference on “Being Well, Growing Old, and Making Choices,” Asheville Regional Hospital, Asheville, NC.
May 25, 2000 “Parental Responsibilities to the Young and Old: The Employers' Ethical Challenge,” Council on Aging Conference, Adams Mark Hotel, Charlotte, NC.
June 12, 2000 “An Adult Looks Back: The Impact of a Child's Oral Health Problems,” US Surgeon General's Conference on Children and Oral Health, Washington DC.
June 12, 2000 Keynote address “When is 'Good' Good Enough: The Quest for the Perfect Baby,” Annual Anatomy and Physiology Conference, Charlotte, NC.
June 19, 2000 “Who Is Responsible for the Health of the Fetus?” Annual Perinatal Conference, Angus McBride Center, Duke University, Durham, NC.
September 21, 2000 “The Possibility and Desirability of Globalizing Bioethics” at The International Association of Bioethics Biennial Conference, Imperial College, London, England.
October 12, 2000 “Core Skills for Health Care Ethics Committees,” Bioethics Resource Group’s Annual Conference for North Carolina and South Carolina Ethics Committees, Charlotte, NC.
November 14, 2000 “Gender Justice in the Healthcare System,” Bioethics Colloquium, University of South Carolina Bioethics Center, Columbia, SC.
December 1, 2000 “Perfect Babies and Human Foibles,” Phi Beta Kappa Speaker, Mercer College, Macon, GA.
December 27, 2000 “Global Justice and Women’s Healthcare Worldwide,” North American Society for Social Philosophy, APA Meetings, New York, NY
February 17, 2001 “The Greek View of the Good Life,” Keynote Speaker, Annual National Meeting of Sigma Phi Epsilon, Charlotte, NC.
March 16, 2001 “New Perspectives on Feminist Bioethics,” Keynote Address, Eastern Division, Society for Women in Philosophy, UNC-Charlotte, Charlotte, NC.
April 3, 2001 “Should Parents Ever Seek to Enhance Their Children?” Faculty Forum, University of Toronto Medical School, Toronto, Canada.
April 19, 2001 “The Black Stork: Can the New Genomics Escape the Legacy of the Old Eugenics?,” Goucher College, Phi Beta Kappa Speaker, Towson, MD.
May 9, 2001 “The Virtues of Imperfection,” Hendrix College, Phi Beta Kappa Speaker, Conway, AK.
October 10, 2001 “The Ferguson Case: A Study in Disorganizational Ethics,” Bioethics Resource Group, Annual Conference, St. Gabriel's Church, Charlotte, NC.
January 17, 2002 “The Old Ethics and the New Medicine: Interpreting Asklepian, Hippocratic, and Samaritanian Principles for our Times,” Pastoral Care Grand Rounds, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC.
February 25, 2002 “Making Perfect Babies,” Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK.
February 26, 2002 “Out of Body Gestation: Feminism Stretched to Its Limits,” Keynote Speaker, Conference on Ectogenesis, Oklahoma State University, Tulsa Campus, OK.
March 2, 2002 “Teaching Bioethics in the New Millennium: Holding Theories Accountable to Actual Practices and Real People,” Association for Practical and Applied Ethics, Cincinnati, OH.
March 12, 2002 “The Stem-Cell Controversy,” Phi Beta Kappa Keynote Speaker, Alumni Meeting, Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, FL.
April 9, 2002 “Making Perfect Babies: A Path Best Left Untravelled,” Phi Beta Kappa Speaker, AL.
April 23, 2002 “The Most Pressing Health Care Ethics Issues Today: Struggling to Achieve a Moral Balance,” Catawba College, Concord, NC.
May 7, 2002 “The Wendland Case: When is it Right to Die?,” University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
May 9, 2002 “Women's Health Care: Getting to the Heart of the Matter,” Texas Women's University, Denton, TX.
May 23, 2002 “The Aging and Dying Process: Salient Moral Notes,” Keynote Speaker, Council on Aging, Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC.
October 9, 2002 “Ethical Issues in Genetic Screening, Counseling and Therapy,” Grand Rounds, Northeast Medical Center, Concord, NC.
October 18, 2002 “The Human Genome Project and the Future of Health Care: We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet,” Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Charlotte, NC.
October 30, 2002 “Feminist Perspectives on Bioethics: The Search for a Common Moral Language,” Keynote Speaker, International Association for Bioethics Conference, Brasilia, Brazil.
November 7, 2002 “Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Getting Serious about Diversity,” Bioethics Resource Group Annual Conference for North Carolina and South Carolina Ethics Committees, Charlotte, NC.
November 11, 2002 “Redesigning Ourselves, Engineering our Children: When is 'Good' Good Enough?” Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA.
January 16, 2003 “Bioethics of Compassion,” Pastoral Care Series on Compassion, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC.
January 28, 2003 “Taking on ‘Big Fat:” A Public Health Approach to Obesity in the U.S.A.,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Charlotte, NC.
March 13, 2003 “The Black Stork: Can the New Genomics Escape the Legacy of the Old Eugenics?” University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL.
March 21, 2003 “The Artificial Womb: Stretching Feminist Thought to its Limit,” Stetson University, Dayton, FL.
May 15, 2003 “Stem Cells and Cloning: It's the Little Things That Count,” Phi Beta Kappa Speaker, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA.
June 27, 2003 “Ectogenesis: Stretch Marks on Feminist Wombs,” Bioethics Retreat, Belairre, MI (hosted by Michigan State).
August 22, 2003 "The U.S. Controversy on Therapeutic and Reproductive Cloning: Is it Possible to Move Beyond the Abortion Issue?", Ethics in Biomedical Research Conference, International Symposium at Bio-medical, Helsinki, Finland.
September 25, 2003 “Is There a Duty to Die?: A Contextual Answer,” Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
October 3, 2003 “Feminist Perspectives on Genetics: Some Converging and Diverging Views," Feminist Gender/Ethics in Science Conference, University of Tuebingen, Germany.
November 14, 2003 "Designer Children: The Implications of the Human Genome Project," Sixth Annual President's Forum, Medical Society of Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
November 24, 2003 “Teaching Bioethics in the New Millennium,” Tuskegee University, Tuskegee Alabama.
January 15, 2004 “Health Care for All: Are We Up to the Challenge?,” Pastoral Care Series, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC.
February 27, 2004 “Feminist Perspectives, Global Bioethics, and the Need for Moral Translation Skills,” Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Cincinnati, OH.
April 13, 2004 “The Ectogenesis Debate: Bursting Birth Out of Women’s Wombs,” University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
June 24, 2004 “Feminism in the Twenty-First Century,” Thirty-Seventh Annual Theology Institute,” Villanova University, Villanova, PA.
September 27, 2004 “Ongoing and Emerging Issues in Organ Transplantation,” Grand Rounds, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
November 9, 2004 “Out of Body Gestation: In Whose Best Interests?”, Seventh World Congress, International Association of Bioethics, Sydney, Australia.
March 15, 2005 “The Misguided Quest for Immortality,” Aging, Genetic Technology, and the Future Conference, Boston College, MA.
August 18, 2005 “Biomedical and Behavioral Research Ethics: Struggling for Personal and Institutional Integrity,” VA Medical Center, Salisbury, NC.
September 14, 2005 “Care-Based and Power-Based Approaches to Feminist Bioethics: Looking through the Lens of Gender,” University of the Philippines: Fogarty International Center Bioethics Training Project, Diliman, Quezon City.
September 15, 2005 “Ongoing and Emerging Debates in U.S. Biomedical and Behavioral Research,” University of the Philippines: University of the Philippines: Fogarty International Center Bioethics Training Project, Diliman, Quezon City.
October 24, 2005 “Feminism and Global Bioethics,” Fogarty International Research Ethics Series, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
November 10, 2005 “Bioethics in the New Millennium: Working towards Care-Focused and Power-Focused Approaches to Bioethics,” for the International Seminar on Bioethics; Bioethics, Health, and Social Justice, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
November 29, 2005 “Therapeutic versus Reproductive Cloning,” Wake Forest Law School, Wake Forest, NC.
December 13, 2005 “What’s Distinctive about Feminist Bioethics,” Research Seminar Series, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Wake Forest, NC.
January 7, 2006 “Globalizing Feminist Bioethics: A Matter of Human Rights,” Winter Bioethics Workshop, Iowa State University, Ames Iowa.
January 11, 2006 “What Do We Owe the Elderly: The Aging American Population’s Needs.” Short Memorial Lecture, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC.
January 18, 2006 “Striking a Moral Balance: What, If Anything, Is Wrong about Embryonic Stem Cell Research?” Jewish Community Center, Charlotte, NC.
March 4, 2006 “Love’s Labor in the Healthcare System: Working Towards Gender Equity,” Annual Meeting of Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Jacksonville, FL.
March 10, 2006 “Assisted Reproduction and Women: Is Infertility Really a Disease?,” Ninth Annual National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN.
March 25, 2006 Author-Meets-Critics: Virginia Held, The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global (Author: Virginia Held, Critics: Eva Feder Kittay and Rosemarie Tong), “Motivating an Ethics of Care to go Public, Even Global: Is It Possible?”, American Philosophical Association, Portland, OR.
April 19, 2006 “Love’s Labor in the Health Care System: Working Towards Gender Equity,” Geisinger Ethics Conference, Geisinger Health Systems, Danville, PA.
May 4, 2006 “Healthcare Reform: How to Finance Disparities.” Department of Medicine Grand Rounds CME Series, Northeast Medical Center, Concord, NC.
August 6, 2006 “Resolving Tensions in Bioethics on Gender and Reproduction,” Sixth International Congress on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics and Eighth World Congress of Bioethics, Beijing, China
December 28, 1990 “Gay and Lesbian Rights,” Speaker (one of three) for Society Systematic Philosophy, American Philosophical Association Meeting, Boston, MA.
December 28, 1991 “Pregnancy in the Hazardous Workplace: In the Wake of Johnson Controls” (Chair and Discussant), American Philosophical Association Meeting, New York, NY.
December 28, 1991 “Feminist Jurisprudence and the Legal Subordination of Women,” (Chair and Discussant), American Philosophical Association Meeting, New York, NY.
December 29, 1991 “Pornography, Art, and the Origins of Consciousness,”(Chair and Discussant), American Philosophical Association Meeting, New York, NY.
March 27, 1993 “Essentialism and Rationality in Feminist Jurisprudence,” (Chair and Discussant), American Philosophical Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
May 7, 1994 “Colloquium on Feminist Political Theory: John Exdell on Rawls,”( Chair and Commentator), American Philosophical Association Meeting, Kansas City, MO.
October 8, 1994 “Procreative Liberty and the New Reproductive Technologies,” (Invited Panel with John Robertson and Tom Murray), Society for Health and Human Values Meeting, Pittsburg, PA.
January 8, 1995 “Bioethics, Feminism, and Reproductive Technology,” (Invited Panel with John Robertson and Susan Wolf), Association of American Law Schools, New Orleans, LA.
September 19, 1995 Society for Bioethics Consultation, Invited Panel on Feminist Bioethics with Laura Purdy and Margaret Little, Cleveland, OH.
December 28, 1995 Commentator on Laura Purdy’s In Their Best Interests, (for Society for Philosophy of Education), American Philosophical Association Meeting, New York, NY.
April 5, 1996 “Feminist Views on the Fetus,” (for Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs), American Philosophical Association Meeting, Seattle, WA.
April 26, 1996 “The Ethics of Care and the Philosophy of Medicine,” (for Society for Philosophy and Medicine), American Philosophical Association Meeting, Chicago, Il.
November 2, 1996 “Just Caring about the Maternal-Fetal Relationship: The Case of Cocaine-Using Pregnant Women,” (Plenary Session, III World Congress of Bioethics), San Francisco, CA.
December 28, 1996 “A Feminist Perspective on Engelhardt’s Libertarian Bioethics,” (Invited Panel on Tristram Engelhardt’s Foundations of Bioethics), American Philosophical Association Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
March 15, 1997 “Tensions and Transformations in the Academy: What Has Women's Studies Brought Us?” (with Evelyn Fox Keller and Katie Geneva Cannon), University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Greensboro, NC.
March 14, 1998 “Physician-Assisted Suicide: Comparative Views,” (Panel Moderator), 20th Anniversary of East Carolina University Medical Humanities Program, Greenville, NC.
March 15, 1998 “Feminist Perspectives on the Perfectible Child” (with Eric Jungst and Glenn McGee), University of Illinois, Chicago Circle Campus, Medical Humanities Department, Chicago, IL.
May 7, 1998 “A Feminist Perspective on Disability,” (with Anita Silver, Mary Mahowald), Society for Philosophy and Medicine, American Philosophical Association Meeting, Chicago, IL.
August 1, 1998 “Sexual Harassment and Erotic Pedagogy: The Jane Gallop Controversy,” (Plenary Session), American Association of Philosophy Teachers, Mansfield University, Mansfield, PA.
September 6, 1998 “Theories of Justice and Models of Disability,” (with Anita Silver, David Wasserman, Jerome Bickenbach, and David Pfeiffer), Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, Boston, MA.
December 28, 1998 Moderator and Commentator (with Laura Purdy, Virginia Warren, and Barbara Steichman), American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, American Philosophical Association Meeting, New York, NY.
May 25, 1999 “Care and Treatment of Persons with Alzheimer's Disease,” (with Stephen Post, Anthony Giordano, Michael Robson), Ethics in Alzheimer’s Disease Conference, Charlotte, NC.
July 20, 1999 “From Bedside to Boardroom,” (with George Khushf), Bioethics Resource Group, Seventh Annual Conference, The Ethics Committee in the Y2K, Charlotte, NC.
October 28, 1999 “Global Perspectives on Genetics,” (with Mary Mahowald, Hilda Nelson, and Loretta Kopelman), Second Annual Meeting of American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Philadelphia, PA.
October 30, 1999 “New Perspectives on Abortion,” (with Tom Murray, Maggie Little, Joan Callahan, Laura Purdy), Second Annual Meeting of American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Philadelphia, PA.
October 31, 1999 “Alternative Conceptualizations of the Scope and Purpose of Organizational Ethics,” (with George Khushf, and Dr. Meany), Second Annual Meeting of American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Philadelphia, PA.
December 28, 1999 “Philosophical Challenges in Teaching Bioethics,” (with Bob Baker, Maureen Kelly, Rosamond Rhodes, Rick Momeyer, and Steven Wear), Philosophy of Medicine Society, American Philosophical Association Meeting, Boston, MA.
December 28, 1999 “Women's Bodies, Medicalization, and Feminist Medicine,” (with Laura Purdy, Barbara Secker, and Virginia Warren), North American Society for Social Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Boston, MA.
October 15, 2000 “Core Competence for Health Care Ethics Committees,” at the Bioethics Resource Group’s Annual Conference, Charlotte, NC.
December 28, 2000 “Global Justice and Health Care” (with Hugh Lafollette.) North American Society for Social Philosophy, New York, NY.
December 27, 2000 “Symposium on Love’s Labor,” (with Eva Kittay, Martha Nussbaum, Sara Ruddick, Roger Gottlieb), American Philosophical Association, New York, NY.
March 3, 2001 “Recent Perspectives on Health Care Ethics” (with Milton Fisk and Leonard Weber), Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Cincinnati, OH.
March 30, 2001 “Choice and Control in Genetic Decision-Making” (with Dan Brock, Alan Buchanan, Frances Kamm, Len Fleck, Norman Daniels), Committee on Philosophy and Medicine, American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, CA
March 31, 2001 “Virtue Ethics from a Global Perspective” (with Joseph Prabhu, Craig Ihava, and Larry Hinman) American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, CA.
May 5, 2001 “Motivating Moral Sentiments and Health Reform Policy” (with Milton Fisk, John Ladd, and Dennis Senchuk), American Philosophical Association, Minneapolis, MN.
May 5, 2001 “Prescription Drugs and Justice” (with Milton Fisk, Steven Miles, Hilde Nelson, and James Lindemann Nelson), American Philosophical Association, Minneapolis, MN.
October 6, 2001 “Third World/Nationalist/Transnational Feminism” (with Rupsa Mallik and Alison Jaggar), Feminist Ethics and Social Theory Conference, Clearwater, FL.
October 10, 2001 “Isn't It Time We Talked?...End of Life Decision Making” (with Sean Morrison, Sharon Dixon, Tom Tate, Hayes Woollen), Mecklenburg County Medical Society, Charlotte, NC.
April 27, 2002 “Out of Body Gestation: A Feminist Perspective” (with Carmella Epright and Laura D. Kaplan), American Philosophical Association, Chicago, IL.
February, 2003 “On Leading the Examined Life: Reflecting on the Limits as Well as Value of Our Ethical Expertise,” (with John Lincourt, Richard Toenjes, Daniel Bechter, Kari Coleman, Parker Foley, Carol Quinn, William Porter), Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Charlotte, NC.
October, 2003 “The Human Aspect of Clinical Research” (with Felix Kin-Maung-Gyi and Mark Clemens), The Greater Charlotte Association of Clinical Research Professionals Annual Fall Workshop, Charlotte, NC.
March, 2004 “American Medicine Meets on ‘Unamerican’ Mind/Body: A Feminist Perspective on Better than Well,” (with Carl Elliott, Eric Juengst, and Kathryn Morgan), American Philosophical Association, Pasadena, CA.
April 16, 2004 “Status of Women in Philosophy,” (with Nancy Tuana), NY Society for Women in Philosophy, New York, NY.
April 25, 2004 “Making Peace in Time of War,” (moderator for Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Marilyn Fisher, Judy Whipps, and Laura Duhan Kaplan), American Philosophical Association, Chicago, IL.
October 30, 2004 “Panel on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Bioethics,” (with Arthur Caplan), American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Philadelphia, PA.
December 27, 2004 “In Celebration of Susan Sherwin’s Contributions to Feminist Bioethics,” (with Margaret Little, Kathryn Morgan, and Caroline McCleod), American Philosophical Association, Boston, MA.
December 28, 2004 “Feminists Connecting Across Generations,” (Moderator for Sally Haslanger, Carol Quinn, Laurie Calhoun, Marilyn Fischer and Carmela Epright), American Philosophical Association, Boston, MA.
March 24, 2005 “Feminism and Autobiographies,” (Moderator for Christine Overall, Carol Quinn, John Whitmire, and Sally Ruddick), American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, CA.
April 30, 2005 “The Feminist Question in Philosophy,” (with Sharon Crasnow, Eva Kittay, Nancy Tuana, Debra Nails, Anita Superson, and Jane Kneller), American Philosophical Association, Chicago, IL.
December 29, 2005 “Pornography Revisited,” (with Alisa Carse, Amy Adler, Tracy Edwards, and Rae Langton), American Philosophical Association, New York, NY.
March 24, 2006 “Women’s Choices: Family Matters in the Profession,” (Moderator for Joanne Waugh, Rebecca Kukla, Janet Kourany, Sharyn Clough, and Jean Keller), American Philosophical Associaton, Portland, OR.
April 28, 2006 “Roundtable on Inclusiveness Issues in the Profession,” (with Susann Nuccetelli, Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo, Lee Hester, Chaung-Seong Hong, Frank Kirkland, and Elizabeth Millan-Zaibert), American Philosophical Association, Chicago, IL.
August 8, 2006 “Birth Sex Ratio Imbalance: Gender, Feminism, and Bioethics,” (with Susan Dodds, Elma Zoboth, Jose Eduado Siqueira, Angela Amondi Wasunna, Tan Lin, Liu Bohong, Xie Zhenming, Zhai Xieomei), Sixth International Congress on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics and Eighth World Congress of Bioethics, Beijing, China.
April 25, 1999 “Ethics of Organ Transplantation,” Mike Collins Show, WFAE 90.7 FM, Charlotte, NC.
December 17, 1999 “Genetic Enhancement,” Mike Collins Show, WFAE 90.7 FM, Charlotte, NC.
May 22, 2000 “Ethics of Aging,” Mike Collins Show, WFAE 90.7 FM, Charlotte, NC.
May 1, 2001 “Global and Local Health Care Disparities,” 96.1 Talk, Charlotte, NC.
December 11, 2001 “The Ethics of Cloning,” Mike Collins Show, WFAE 90.7 FM, Charlotte, NC
April 29, 2002 “Aging, Death, and Dying,” Mike Collins Show, WFAE 90.7 FM, Charlotte, NC
November 11, 2002 “Controlling Our Reproductive Destiny,” a NPR radio program sponsored by APA, Penn State’s Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State National Public Radio Station WPSU.
February 28, 2003 "Professional and Practical Ethics," Mike Collins Show, WFAE 90.7 FM, Charlotte, NC
November 4, 1999 “Should Parents Seek to Perfect Their Children Genetically?” UNCC Spotlight on Research. UNC Charlotte, Channel 22.
August 9, 2000 “Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease” panel with John Lincourt, Jean Cochrane, Tony Biles, Shirley Travis, Darlyne Menseer, MD, James Pugh, MD, Beth Croom. UNC-Charlotte, Channel 22.
October 9, 2001 “Isn’t It Time to Talk: End of Life Decision-Making,” Interview with Dr. Sean Morrison, Albert Einstein School of Medicine. UNC Charlotte, Channel 22.
March 5, 2002 “Helping People Have Babies: New Treatments for Infertility,” Interview with Dr. Wallace Nunley, Carolinas Medical Center, NC and Dr. Nancy Teaff, Presbyterian Hospital, NC. UNC Charlotte, Channel 22.
November 6, 2002 “Cultural Competency in Health Care System,” Interview with Marian Gray Secundy , PhD, Howard University, Department of Clinical Medicine. UNC Charlotte, Channel 22.
November 10, 2002 “The New Genomics,” Rosemarie Tong Interviewed by Take Note Producer, Penn State Public Broadcasting (WPSX)
March 10, 2003 “HIV-AIDS: Where Does North Carolina Stand?,” Interview with Dr. James Horton and Dr. Steven Keener. UNC Charlotte, Channel 22.
November 11, 2003 “Moving Beyond Abortion: Reproductive Issues in the 2000s,” Interview with Dr. Glenn McGee, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Bioethics. UNC Charlotte, Channel 22.
May 5, 2004 “Putting a Face on the Uninsured: A Physician Reaches Out,” Interview with Ophelia Garmon Brown, M.D., Medical Director of Presbyterian Urgent Care. UNC Charlotte, Channel 22.
May 7, 2004 “Uninsured Employees: A Growing Community Concern,” panel with Mark S. Boynton, Tucker Boynton Company, Russel Guerin, President, Managed Health Resources, Carolinas Healthcare System, John T. Klimas, MD, Carolinas Asthmas and Allergy Center, Katie Tyler, President, Tyler II Construction. UNC Charlotte, Channel 22.
October 6, 2004 “U.S. Health Care Reform: What’s a Good Doc to Do?,” Interview with Steven Miles, M.D., University of Minnesota Bioethics Center and Hayles Woolen M.D., President of Mecklenburg Medical Society. UNC Charlotte, Channel 22.
May 6, 2005 “Medical Research: Is It Good for Your Health?” Interview with Nancy M. P. King, JD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Social Medicine. UNC Charlotte, Channel 22.
April 18, 2005 NOVA Science NOW TV program, Discovery Place, Charlotte, NC (with Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg).
September 20, 2005 “Reflections on Dying, Post Schiavo,” Interview with William H. Colby, JD, Fellow, Center for Practical Bioethics, Kansas City, MO and John E. Barkley, MD, Vice President of Medical Services for Hospice and Palliative Care, Charlotte Region. UNC Charlotte, Channel 22.
December 7, 1990 “Ethical Issues and Moral Decisionmaking in Prenatal Nursing,” Prenatal Nursing Seminar, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC.
February 25, 1993 “On the Edge: Perinatal Legal and Ethical Issues,” AHEC Seminar for Perinatal Nurses, Charlotte, NC.
January 19, 1995 Biomedical Ethics Center Seminar, “Maternal-Fetal Conflict: The Misguided Case for Punishing Cocaine-using Pregnant Women,” Biomedical Ethics Center Office, Minneapolis, MN.
December 8, 1995 Seminar at School of Social Work, “Ethics, Oncology and Social Work.” University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
June 26, 1997 “The Ethics of Nursing,” Nursing Seminar, Presbyterian Hospital, Charlotte, NC.
March 7-11, 1999 Seminar at Witchita State University, Witchita, Kansas. Served as Distinguished Visiting Professor for the Delta Gamma / Kansas Health Foundation Lectureship in Health Care Value and Ethics. This four-day seminar focused on my books.
November 30, 2000 Seminar for Women’s Studies Program, Greensboro College, NEH Faculty Development Grant, “The Female Body,” Greensboro, NC.
June 17-July 8, 1996 “The Magic of Healing, ” Davidson College, Davidson, NC (with Morgan Cowan).
July 27-August 2, 1996 “Detachment and Engagement in Clinical Practice, ” Hiram College, Hiram, OH (with Howard Brody, Ellen Moore, John Stone, Sandra Harding).
January 20, 1997- “Thirteen Classic Cases in Medical Ethics: What Lessons Can We
December 20, 1997 Learn from Them?, ” Cabarrus Memorial Hospital, Concord, NC.
June 11-15, 1997 “Narrative Ethics in Clinical Practice, ” Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio (with Hilde Nelson, Courtney Davis, Lawrence Thomas, John Stone, and Jack Coulehan).
October 27, 1998 “Ethical Issues in HIV/AIDS,”AHEC Forum: Navigating Change: Meeting the New Challenges of HIV/AIDS.
October 30, 1998 “Responsible and Responsive Ethics Consultation, ” Ethics Committee Annual Retreat, Gaston Memorial Hospital, Gastonia, NC.
February 20, 2001 “Core Competencies for Ethics Committees,” Northeast Medical Center, Concord, NC.
August 10-12, 2001 “The Language of Bioethics: An International Conference to Plan the Cambridge Dictionary of Bioethics”, Union College, Schenectady, NY.
February 19, 2002 “Revitalizing Hospital Ethics Committees,” Northeast Medical Center, Concord, NC.
October 4-5, 2002 “Ethical Issues in the World of Business: Money, Relationships, and the Three C’s,” Blumenthal Center, Wildacres, for McColl School of Business, Queens University, Charlotte, NC.
October 7, 2002 “Pragmatic Ethics for Physician Leaders,” for MCMS Physician Leadership Program at Queens University, Charlotte, NC.
September 8, 2003 "An Ethics Committee Primer: How to Shape One That Fits Your Needs," University Hospital, Carolinas Health Care System, Charlotte, NC.
October 11-12, 2003 “Business Ethics: Are They Any Better this Year than Last?”, Blumenthal Center, Wildacres, for McColl School of Business, Queens University, Charlotte, NC.
August 19, 2005 “Research Ethics: Veterans and Vulnerability,” VA Medical Center, Salisbury, NC.
July-August, 1980 NEH Summer Stipend to analyze the Nature, Function, Limits, and Legitimacy of Anglo-American Criminal Conspiracy Laws ($3,000).
July-August, 1982 Sloan Grant to prepare a course entitled “Moral Dimensions of Public Policy” ($2,500).
Fall, 1982 Andrew Mellon Faculty Development Grant to prepare a course entitled “Foundations of Feminist Thought” ($3,500).
Summer, 1983 Sloan Grant to prepare a course entitled “Technology and Philosophy” ($2,500).
Summer, 1983 NEH Grant to coordinate a Freshman Seminar for Winter Studies, Public Man, Private Woman ($1,000).
Summer, 1984 Sloan Grant to participate in a two-week workshop at M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) on Medical Technology ($4,000).
Summer, 1985 Sloan Grant to prepare monograph on Genetic and Reproductive Technologies ($4,200).
Summer, 1985 Sloan Grant to participate in a one-week workshop at M.I.T. on Genetic and Reproductive Technologies ($1,000).
Fall, 1985 Ford Foundation Grant to integrate gender into the Curriculum ($5,000).
Spring, 1987 Ford Foundation Grant to coordinate Speakers Series on “Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective” ($750).
Spring, 1987 Council of Chief State School Officers Grant to prepare syllabus on the Ethics of Good Citizenship ($500).
Summer, 1988 Davidson College Faculty Development Grant ($5000).
Summer, 1989 Davidson College Faculty Development Grant ($5000).
Summer, 1990 Davidson College Faculty Development Grant ($5000).
Summer, 1990 Davidson College Pew Grant ($1,200). Student: Frances Redmon.
Summer, 1991 Fullerton Foundation Grant for Medical Humanities Program (3 years, total of $142,000).
Summer, 1991 Davidson College, Pew Grant for student intern, Susan Peppers ($1,200).
Fall, 1991 GTE Grant for Speakers' Program on “Technology and Ethics” ($5000).
Spring, 1995 Warren W. Hobbie Charitable Trust Grant for Medical Humanities Program (5 years, total of $75,000).
Fall, 1995 Fullerton Foundation Grant for Medical Humanities Program and Bioethics Resource Group (3 years, total of $69,000).
Spring, 2000 Funding for UNC, Charlotte Conference on “Eliminating Healthcare Disparities” ($35,000 from Charlotte and NC Healthcare Institutes and Organizations, with Dr. Bill Brandon and Dr. Debra Terrell.
Fall, 2000 Travel Grant to London from International Studies to speak at Annual Conference of the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics ($5,000).
Spring 2001 Funding for UNC-Charlotte and Charlotte World Affairs Council on “Eliminating Health Care Inequa