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Kirstin Borgerson

Assistant Professor (BA Saskatchewan; MA, PhD Toronto)

Interests:
Philosophy of Medicine, Bioethics, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Science.

Publications

Borgerson, K. “Why reading the title isn’t good enough: An evaluation of the 4S approach to evidence-based medicine,” The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (IJFAB). [Forthcoming 2009]

Bluhm, R., Borgerson, K. “Evidence-based Medicine” in Handbook of the Philosophy of Science Series, Volume: Philosophy of Medicine. Edited by Fred Gifford. London: Elsevier. [Forthcoming 2009]

Borgerson, K. “Valuing Evidence: Bias and the Evidence Hierarchy of Evidence-based Medicine,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 52 2 (2009): 218-33.

 Borgerson, K. “Diversity and Objectivity in Medicine” Munk Centre for International Studies (MCIS) Briefings: Comparative Program on Health and Society / Lupina Foundation Working Paper Series (2006): 1-21.

Borgerson, K. “Evidence-based Alternative Medicine?” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine.
48 4 (2005): 502-15.

Borgerson, K. “Playing by the Rules: Feminism, Alternative Medicine and Standards of Scientific Evidence” Munk Centre for International Studies (MCIS) Briefings: Comparative Program on Health and Society / Lupina Foundation Working Paper Series (2005): 17-33.


Book Reviews

Borgerson, K. Review of “Evidence-based Medicine and the Search for a Science of Clinical Care” by Jeanne Daly (University of California Press, Los Angeles and Berkeley: 2005). In ISIS Vol. 97 No. 3 (2006), pp. 593-4.

 
Editorials / Editors’ Introductions

Goldenberg, M., Borgerson, K., Bluhm, R. “The Nature of Evidence in Evidence-based Medicine: Guest Editors’ Introduction” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 52 2 (2009): 164-7.

Borgerson, K., Bluhm, R. “Evidence-based Medicine: Editors’ Overview and Introduction”
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. Vol. 48 No.4 (2005): 475-6.

 
Courses

Fall 2009         PHL2805.03   Ethics and Health Care: Patient Care

Winter 2010    PHL2810.03   Ethics and Health Care: Social Policy

Winter 2010    PHL4801.03/ PHL5801.03/ BIOT5801.03 Topics in Ethics and Health Care