I’m a feminist philosopher working with the care tradition and its critics. Drawing especially on resources from feminist ethics and socialist feminisms, I understand the practice of care as both a source of ethical insight and a marginalized form of work.
This perspective becomes particularly valuable when considering the increasing technologization and commodification of the contemporary “care sector,” bringing an under-appreciated form of analysis to bioethics and the ethics of technology. My first book, The Limits of Care: Making Feminist Sense of Technology Relations, examines shifting practices and norms of care in this context and is under contract with Oxford University Press, Studies in Feminist Philosophy Series.
As a feminist bioethicist, I am especially interested in the ways that health care technologies reconfigure human relationships of care. My expertise in socially assistive robots, telemedicine and newer direct-to-consumer telehealth, as well as direct-to consumer genetic testing gives me a broad base in emerging health care technologies, each of which is impacted by the current AI boom. My published work also has also addressed methodological questions surrounding the goals of relational theorizing in bioethics and medical humanities curricula for undergraduate medical education.
I became a Presidential Scholar at the Hastings Center following my postdoc there and I remain involved with the Center as a grant collaborator and series editor (with Jennifer James) on Health and Incarceration for the Hastings Center Report. I am Assistant Treasurer for the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, for whom I also co-edit a scholarly blog.
My study of care and technomoral change has led me to subsequent work on the social bases of ethical norms and normative justification. Forthcoming projects include articles on the descriptive/normative divide in care theory and Margaret Urban Walker’s contributions to a metaethics of care.
I live in Philadelphia with my spouse and our small zoo of two cats and one dog. The cover art on my page is by William Christenberry, visual artist and chronicler of rural Alabama, where my much of my family is from.
This perspective becomes particularly valuable when considering the increasing technologization and commodification of the contemporary “care sector,” bringing an under-appreciated form of analysis to bioethics and the ethics of technology. My first book, The Limits of Care: Making Feminist Sense of Technology Relations, examines shifting practices and norms of care in this context and is under contract with Oxford University Press, Studies in Feminist Philosophy Series.
As a feminist bioethicist, I am especially interested in the ways that health care technologies reconfigure human relationships of care. My expertise in socially assistive robots, telemedicine and newer direct-to-consumer telehealth, as well as direct-to consumer genetic testing gives me a broad base in emerging health care technologies, each of which is impacted by the current AI boom. My published work also has also addressed methodological questions surrounding the goals of relational theorizing in bioethics and medical humanities curricula for undergraduate medical education.
I became a Presidential Scholar at the Hastings Center following my postdoc there and I remain involved with the Center as a grant collaborator and series editor (with Jennifer James) on Health and Incarceration for the Hastings Center Report. I am Assistant Treasurer for the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, for whom I also co-edit a scholarly blog.
My study of care and technomoral change has led me to subsequent work on the social bases of ethical norms and normative justification. Forthcoming projects include articles on the descriptive/normative divide in care theory and Margaret Urban Walker’s contributions to a metaethics of care.
I live in Philadelphia with my spouse and our small zoo of two cats and one dog. The cover art on my page is by William Christenberry, visual artist and chronicler of rural Alabama, where my much of my family is from.
