I’m a feminist philosopher interested in care ethics and other relational approaches to ethical and social theorizing––broadly, these are perspectives that take relationships as primary for thinking about selfhood, social life, and responsibility. My research questions exactly which relationships are relevant in this way, how they impact the construction of selfhood, and how they bear on projects in normative ethics.
I have taken these questions up especially in the context of the increasingly high-tech and commodified contemporary “care sector.” 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.
My work in feminist bioethics considers a range of emerging technologies including socially assistive robots, telemedicine and newer direct-to-consumer telehealth, as well as direct-to consumer genetic testing, 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. Projects in progress 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.
I have taken these questions up especially in the context of the increasingly high-tech and commodified contemporary “care sector.” 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.
My work in feminist bioethics considers a range of emerging technologies including socially assistive robots, telemedicine and newer direct-to-consumer telehealth, as well as direct-to consumer genetic testing, 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. Projects in progress 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.