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I am Associate Professor and Graduate Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. I am also an Affiliate Member of Women's Studies and Feminist Research at Western. My research and teaching falls within the areas of health care ethics, ethical theory, and feminist theory.

I received my BA and MA in Philosophy from Queen's University, and my PhD from Dalhousie University. I also did postdoctoral work, funded mostly by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), at the Bioethics Center, University of Minnesota and at the philosophy department at Western. From 2001-2, I was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. And from 2004-6, I was a Lupina New Faculty Fellow in the Comparative Program on Health and Society at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. My book, Self-Trust and Reproductive Autonomy, was published in 2002 in the Basic Bioethics Series of the MIT Press. The book is representative of my research interests in general, covering areas at the intersection of moral theory, reproductive ethics, and feminist theory.

I have published articles on the nature of different moral concepts and on practical moral problems in reproductive ethics. The concepts I have studied include trust, autonomy, integrity, objectification and commodification. The practical issues I have written on include miscarriage, in vitro fertilization, embryo and oocyte donation, and contract pregnancy.

I am past Co-coordinator of fab, the International Network on feminist approaches to bioethics. We have recently created a new journal devoted to feminist approaches to bioethics: the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, or IJFAB.

Representative Publications