Dalhousie Faculty: Susan Sherwin

Susan Sherwin, Professor.
University Research Professor (2002--08)

BA (York '69), PhD (Stanford '74), FRSC

Interests: Feminist theory, bioethics, ethics.

SEE ALSO Prof. Sherwin's page in the Bioethics Department: Click HERE

Books:

Women, Medicine, Ethics, and the Law. Susan Sherwin and Barbara Parish, eds. Volume in Internaltional Library of Medicine, Ethics, and the Law. Hampshire, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Limited (forthcoming).

The Politics of Women's Health: Exploring Agency and Autonomy, The Feminist Health Care Ethics Research Network, Susan Sherwin Coordinator, Philadelphia: Temple University Press (1998).

No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics and Health Care, Philadelphia: Temple University Press (1992)

Health Care Ethics in Canada, Toronto: Harcourt Brace, 1995, co-edited with Francoise Baylis, Jocelyn Downie, Benjamin Freedman, and Barry Hoffmaster.

Moral Problems in Medicine, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1976 (Second Edition, 1983), edited by Samuel Gorovitz, Ruth Macklin, Andrew L. Jameton, John M. O'Connor, Susan Sherwin.

Selected Recent Book Chapters:

?Feminist Reflections on the Role of Theories in a Global Bioethics? and ?Normalizing Reproductive Technologies and the Implications for Autonomy.? In Rosemarie Tong, Gwen Anderson, and Aida Santos, eds. Globalizing Feminist Bioethics (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, forthcoming).

Carolyn McLeod and Susan Sherwin. 2000. “Relational Autonomy, Self-Turst, and Health Care for Patients Who are Oppressed.? In Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency and the Social Self, Catriona MacKenzie and Natlie Stoljar, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Chapter One: ?Introduction? and Chapter Two: "A Relational Approach to Autonomy in Health Care" in The Politics of Women?s Health: Exploring Agency and Autonomy, The Feminist Health Care Ethics Research Network, Susan Sherwin Coordinator, Philadelphia: Temple University Press (1998).  Also, Chapter Ten: ?Reframing Research Involving Humans? with Fran篩se Baylis and Jocelyn Downie.

"Women and Health Research: From Theory, to Practice, to Policy." Fran篩se Baylis, Jocelyn Downie, and Susan Sherwin.  In Procedings of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network, Anne Donchin and Laura Purdy, eds. Rowman and Littlefield (in press).

"Health Care Ethics."  A Companion to Feminist Philosophy, Alison Jaggar and Iris Marion Young, eds., Blackwells (1997).

"Theory vs. Practice in Ethics: A Feminist Perspective on Justice and Health Care."  In Philosophical Perspectives on Bioethics, L. W. Sumner and Joseph Boyle, eds., Toronto: University of Toronto Press (1996).

"Cancer and Women: Some Feminist Ethics Concerns."  In Gender and Health: An International Perspective. Carolyn Sargent and Caroline Brettell, eds., Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall (1996).

"Feminism and Bioethics."  In Feminism and Bioethics: Beyond Reproduction, Susan Wolf, ed. New York: Oxford University Press (1996).

"The Certification of Health Care Ethics Consultants: Advantages and Disadvantages."  In The Health Care Ethics Consultant, Francoise Baylis, ed.  (New York: Human Press 1994)

"Medicalization and the New Reproductive Technologies," with Michael Burgess and Arthur Frank.  In New Reproductive Technologies: Ethical Aspects, Volume 1, Research Studies of Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies.  (Ottawa: Minister of Government Services, 1993).

"Inclusion of Women in Clinical Studies: A Feminist View."  In Proceedings of the Committee on Legal and Ethical Issues Relating to the Inclusion of Women in Clinical Studies (Washington: Institute of Medicine, 1993).

"Feminist Ethics and New Reproductive Technologies," in The Future of Human Reproduction, Christine Overall, ed. Toronto: The Women's Press, 1989, 259-271.

"Philosophical Methodology and Feminist Methodology: Are They Compatible?", in Feminist Perspectives: Philosophical Essays on Method and Morals, ed. by Sheila Mullett, Christine Overall, and Lorraine Code, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988, pp. 13-28.

Collaborative Monographs:

Is Feminist Ethics Possible?  1991.  Lorraine Code, Maureen Ford, Kathleen Martindale, Susan Sherwin, and Debra ShoganThe CRIAW Papers, No. 27.

Teaching Medical Ethics: A Report on One Approach, the Moral Problems in Medicine Project, Department of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, 1973 (with Samuel Gorovitz, Andrew Jameton, Ruth Macklin, John O'Connor).

Selected Recent Journal Articles:

?Foundations, Frameworks, Lenses: The Role of Theories in Bioethics.? Bioethics 13:3, 4 (July 1999: 198-205.

?Les approches f魩nistes en bio鴨ique.? Theologiques 7, 1 (printemps 1999): 9-18.

?Bioetica femminista e autonomia relazionale: una prospettiva nuova.? Politeia 15(55) 1999: 3-11.

"Feminist Ethics and the Metaphors of AIDS." Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (forthcoming, Fall 1998).

"A Feminist Exploration of Issues Around Assisted Death,"  with Jocelyn Downie, St. Louis University Public Law Review XV (2) 1996: 303-330.

"Feminism and Health Care Ethics Consultation" with Jocelyn Downie, HEC Forum 5, 3 (May 1993): 165-175.

"Feminism, Ethics and Cancer."  Humane Medicine 10, 4 (October 1994): 282-290.

"Women in Clinical Studies: A Feminist View."  Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 3, 4 (Fall 1994): 533-38.

"Abortion through a Feminist Ethics Lens." Dialogue XXX (1991): 327-42; reprinted in several anthologies.

"Feminist Ethics and Medical Ethics: Two Different Approaches to Contextual Ethics,"  Hypatia, 2, 4 (Summer 1989): 57-72.

"Feminist Ethics and In Vitro Fertilization," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 17, 3 (September, 1987): 265-284; reprinted in several anthologies.

"Women's Health Issues: A Feminist Perspective," Health Care for Women International, 4, 1987

Selected Recent Research Grants:

NNEWH Grant "Women's Health: An Impact Assessment of the Canadian Biotechnology Strategy" $23, 200.00 for 1999-2001. Co-Investigator (PI: Lorna Weir, York).

MRC Grant (MELSI-RFP Genomics/Genetics Research) "Women's Health: An Impact
Assessment of the Canadian Biotechnoogy Strategy." $25,000 for 1999-2000. Co-Investigator (PI: Lorna Weir, York).

CHSRF/SSHRC CIHR Design Grant, Principal Investigator, 1999, $40,000.

Health Canada Grant, International Perspectives on Bioethics. $25,000 (1999) and $5000 (2000) towards conference involvement linking the International Association of Bioethics and the Canadian Bioethics Society. Co-investigator. (Vangie Begum, University of Alberta, Principal Investigator).

SSHRC Strategic Research Network Grant: Feminist Health Care Ethics 1993-96 (extended to 1998); Principal Investigator, $120,000.

Recent Awards:

CAUT Sarah Shorten Award, 2000


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