ABBREVIATED VITAE

SUSAN SHERWIN

ADDRESS

Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4P9E-mail: susan.sherwin@dal.ca FAX: 902-494-3518

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Moral Problems of Medicine Project Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1973-1974

Ph.D., Philosophy, Stanford University, California, 1974B.A. (Hons.), Mathematics and Philosophy, York University, Toronto, Ontario, 1969

Dissertation Moral Foundations of FeminismSupervisor: Thomas Schwartz

HONOURS

Appointed to the Order of Canada, 2015 (Investiture May 13, 2016).Elected Fellow, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences 2007Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Bioethics Society 2007Killam Prize in Humanities, 2006Distinguished Woman Philosopher, 2004, awarded by the American Society for

Women and PhilosophyUniversity Research Professor, 2002-2008Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 1999-present George Munro Professor of Philosophy (Metaphysics), 1999-2002CAUT Sarah Shorten Award, 2000Scholar, Rockefeller Foundation International Study and Conference Centre,

Bellagio, Italy, February 19 – March 10, 1999

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UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS

2008- present, University Research Professor, Emerita, Dalhousie University 2002-2008 University Research Professor, Dalhousie University 2000-2002 George Monroe Professor of Philosophy, Dalhousie University

1990-2008 · Professor, Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University1980-1990 · Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University1974-1980 · Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University1996-2000, 1987-1988 · Co-ordinator, Women’s Studies, Dalhousie University1982-1987 · Chairperson, Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University Summer 1976 · Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University1977-1981 · Special Part-time Lecturer in Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie

University (frequent occasional teaching since then)

Occasional teaching in Faculty of Health Professions: Nursing, Health Services Administration, Social Work, Dalhousie University

HONOURARY CROSS-APPOINTMENTS

2002 – 2007, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Professions, Dalhousie University

2001 – 2006, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University 1980 – present, Women’s Studies Program (now Gender and Women’s Studies),

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Dalhousie University

EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

2005-06Aid to Research Workshopsand Conferences in Canada:

Agency and EmbodimentSSHRC $20,000

PrincipalInvestigator

2004-05PERIOD

A Feminist Critical Review ofthe Impact of Gender-based

Analysis on Women’sOccupational Health Research

TITLE OF GRANT

NNEWH(National

Network onEnvironments& Women’s

Health)

$14,185AMOUNT

Sole investigatorROLE

2002-07 University Research Professor DalhousieUniversity

$1000/year

SoleInvestigator

2002-04Matching Grant, TrainingGrant in Ethics of Health

Research and PolicyNSHRF $100,000

PrincipalInvestigator

1999 CIHR Design Grant CHSFR/SSHRC $40,000Principal

Investigator

1993-96(extendedto 1998)

Strategic Research NetworkGrant: Feminist Health Care

Ethics SSHRC $120,000

PrincipalInvestigator

1997-98Conference for C-SWIP

AnnualSSHRC $7500

PrincipalInvestigator

1981-82 Leave Fellowship SSHRC $6449Principal

Investigator

CO-INVESTIGATOR

2008-2009

Ethics in an aging society: Exploring influences and values on personal care practices in the provision of oral health care for frail dependent elders.

CIHR $40,000Co-Investigator

(PI: MaryMcNally)

2008-2009

Maternal distress and childhood asthma: Does it matter to women if risk is attributed to genetics or the environment?

CIHR $25,000Co-Investigator

(PI: AnitaKozyrskyj)

2007-2009

Pandemic Planning:Foundational Questions ofJustice, the Common Good

and the Public Interest

CIHR $130,000Co-investigator

(PI: NualaKenny)

2002-2008

Ethics of Health Researchand Policy Training Program

CIHR StategicTraining ProgramGrants, Michael

Smith Foundation

$1,849,780

Dalhousie Co-ordinator (PI:

MichaelMcDonald,

UBC)

2002-2008

Health Law and PolicyCIHR Strategic

Training ProgramGrants

$1,797,000

Co-investigator(PI: Jocelyn

Downie,Dalhousie)

1999-2000

Women’s Health: An ImpactAssessment of the Canadian

Biotechnology StrategyNNEWH $23,200

Co-investigator(PI: LornaWeir, York)

1999-2000

Women’s Health: An ImpactAssessment of the Canadian

Biotechnology Strategy

MRC Grant(MELSI-RFP

Genomics/GeneticsResearch)

$25,000Co-investigator

(PI: LornaWeir, York)

1999International Perspectives on

Bioethics Health CanadaGrant

$25,000Co-investigator

(PI: VangieBegum,

University ofAlberta)

2000Extension, InternationalPerspectives on Ethics

$5000

1996-2002

Research MemberNational Networkon Environments

& Women’s Health

$600,000per year

Co-investigator

1996-2002

Research MemberMaritime Centre of

Excellence forWomen’s Health

$600,000per year

Co-investigator

1991-1993

Research Network Grant:Ethics Consultation in

Health CareSSHRC $70,000

Co-Investigator(PI: Françoise

Baylis,Dalhousie)

CONTRACT RESEARCH Health Canada. “Governance of Research Involving Humans.” March 2002.

Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee. “Towards an Adequate Ethical Framework for Setting Biotechnology Policy” August 2000-January 2001. Available at www.cbac-cccb.ca.

Maritime Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health. “Health Protection for the 21st

Century? A Response from the Maritime Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health on Health Protection Branch Discussion Papers” 1998. Gender and Health Policy Discussion Series, Maritime Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, Paper No. 2,October 1998.

Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies. “Medicalization and the New Reproductive Technologies” with Michael Burgess and Arthur Frank (1991-92). In Research Studies of Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies, New Reproductive Technologies: Ethical Aspects, Volume 1, Ottawa: Minister of Government Services, 1993: 149-189.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Françoise Baylis, Barry Hoffmaster, Susan Sherwin, and Kirstin Borgerson eds. HealthCare Ethics in Canada, 3rd edition, Toronto: Thompson Nelson, 2011.

Sue Campbell, Letitia Meynell, and Susan Sherwin, eds. Embodiment and Agency, (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2009).

Susan Sherwin and Peter Schotch, eds. Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007).

Françoise Baylis, Jocelyn Downie, Barry Hoffmaster, and Susan Sherwin, eds. Health Care Ethics in Canada, 2nd edition, Toronto: Thompson Nelson, 2004.

Susan Sherwin and Barbara Parish, eds. Women, Medicine, Ethics, and the Law. Volume in International Library of Medicine, Ethics, and the Law. Hampshire, U.K.:Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2002.

The Feminist Health Care Ethics Research Network, Susan Sherwin Co-ordinator. The Politics of Women’s Health: Exploring Agency and Autonomy, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.

Susan Sherwin. No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics and Health Care, Philadelphia:Temple University Press, 1992. Translated into Swedish, Japanese and (unofficially) Spanish.

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

MONOGRAPHS

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

Samuel Gorovitz, Andrew Jameton, Ruth Macklin, John O'Connor, and Susan Sherwin. Teaching Medical Ethics: A Report on One Approach, the Moral Problemsin Medicine Project, Department of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, 1973.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Doan, M. D. & Sherwin, S. 2016. “Relational Solidarity and Climate Change,” In Climate Change and Health: Bioethical Insights into Values and Policy, ed. C. Macpherson. New York: Springer.

Susan Sherwin. “Relational Autonomy and Global Threats.” In Jocelyn Downie andJennifer Llewellyn, eds. Being Relational: Reflections on Relational Theory and Health Law and Policy. (Vancouver BC: UBC Press, 2011): 13-34.

Kira Tomsons and Susan Sherwin. “Feminist Reflections on Tracy Latimer and SueRodriguez.” In Michael Stingl, ed. The Price of Compassion (Peterborough ON: Broadview Press, 2010)

Susan Sherwin. “Relational Existence and Termination: When Embodiment Precludes Agency.” In Sue Campbell, Letitia Meynell, and Susan Sherwin, eds. Agency and Embodiment, University Park, PA: Penn State Press 2009, pp. 145-163.

Susan Sherwin. “On teaching and Writing Feminist Philosophy in the 1970s”. Meg Luxton, Margrit Eichler, Wendy Robbins, and Francine Descarries, ed. In Minds of our Own: Investigatin Feminist Scholarship and Women’s Studies and Quebec, 1966-76, Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008, pp. 275-281.

Susan Sherwin. “Feminist Approaches to Health Care Ethics.” In Principles of Health Care Ethics, 2nd edition. Richard Ashcroft, Angus Dawson, Heather Draper, John McMillan, editors. (West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2007), pp. 79-85.

Susan Sherwin. “Introduction” (pp. 3-20) and “Determining Health Care Needs

after the Human Genome Project: Reflections on Genetic Tests for Breast Cancer”

(pp. 51-75). In Susan Sherwin and Peter Schotch, eds., Engaged Philosophy:

Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press,

2007).

Susan Sherwin. “Personalizing the Political: Negotiating Feminist, Medical,

Scientific, and Commercial Discourses Surrounding Breast Cancer”. In The Voice of

Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics, Mary Rawlinson and Shannon Lundeen,

editors. Philosophy and Medicine 88, Springer 2006: 3-20.

Susan Sherwin. “Femminismo e Bioetica.” In Nuove Maternita: Riflessioni Bioethiche al femminile, Carla Faralli and Cecilia Cortesi, editors. Italy: Diabasis, 2006: 3-30.

Susan Sherwin and Meredith Schwartz. “Resisting the Emergence of Bio-

Amazons.” In Claudio M. Tamburrini and Torbjorn Tannsjo (eds.), Genetic

Technology and Sport: Ethical Questions. London and New York: Routledge 2005,

pp. 199-204.

Susan Sherwin. “Belmont Revisted through a Feminist Lens.” In James Childress,

Eric M. Meslin, and Harold T. Shapiro, eds. Belmont Revisited: Ethical Principles

for Research with Human Subjects. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University

Press, pp. 148-164.

Susan Sherwin. “Fundamentos da Bioética Feminista.” In Volnei Garrafa and Leo

Pessini, eds. Bioética: Poder e Injustiça. São Paulo, Brazil: Edições Loyola: 333-43.

Francoise Baylis and Susan Sherwin. “Judgements of Non-Compliance in

Pregnancy” In Donna Dickenson, ed. Maternal-Fetal Relationships. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 285-301.

Susan Sherwin. “Placing Values at the Centre of Biotechnology Policy: The

Canadian Biotechnology Strategy and Women’s Health. Opening Remarks.” The

Gender of Genetic Futures: The Canadian Biotechnology Strategy, Women and

Health. National Network on Environments and Women’s Health: A Centre of

Excellence For Research on Women’s Health. York University. 2000, pp. 1-8.

Susan Sherwin. “Feminist Reflections on the Role of Theories in a Global

Bioethics” in Rosemarie Tong, Gwen Anderson, and Aida Santos, eds. Globalizing

Feminist Bioethics, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2001: 12-26.

Susan Sherwin. “Normalizing Reproductive Technologies and the Implications for

Autonomy” in Rosemarie Tong, Gwen Anderson, and Aida Santos, eds. Globalizing

Feminist Bioethics, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2001: 96-113.

Carolyn McLeod and Susan Sherwin. “Relational Autonomy, Self-Trust, and

Health Care for Patients Who are Oppressed” in Catriona MacKenzie and Natalie

Stoljar, eds. Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency and

the Social Self, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000: 259-279.

Susan Sherwin and Christy Simpson. “Ethical Questions in the Pursuit of Genetic

Information: Geneticization and BRCA1” in A. Thompson and R. Chadwick, eds.

Genetic Information: Acquisition, Access, and Control, Plenum Publishing

Corporation, 1999: 121128.

Susan Sherwin. “Bioethics” and “Military Metaphors” in Lorraine Code, ed.

Encyclopedia of Feminist Philosophy, London: Routledge, 1998.

Susan Sherwin et al. Chapter One: “Introduction” in The Feminist Health Care

Ethics Research Network, Susan Sherwin Co-ordinator, The Politics of Women’s

Health: Exploring Agency and Autonomy, Philadelphia: Temple University Press,

1998: 1-18.

Susan Sherwin. Chapter Two: “A Relational Approach to Autonomy in Health

Care” in The Feminist Health Care Ethics Research Network, Susan Sherwin Co-

ordinator, The Politics of Women’s Health: Exploring Agency and Autonomy,

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998: 19-47.

Françoise Baylis, Jocelyn Downie, and Susan Sherwin. Chapter Ten: “Reframing

Research Involving Humans” in The Feminist Health Care Ethics Research

Network, Susan Sherwin Co-ordinator, The Politics of Women’s Health: Exploring

Agency and Autonomy, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998: 234-259.

Françoise Baylis, Jocelyn Downie, and Susan Sherwin. “Women and Health

Research: From Theory, to Practice, to Policy” in Anne Donchin and Laura Purdy,

eds. Proceedings of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network, Rowman and

Littlefield, 1999: 253-268.

Susan Sherwin. “Health Care Ethics” in Alison Jaggar and Iris Marion Young, eds.

A Companion to Feminist Philosophy, Blackwells, 1997: 420-428.

Susan Sherwin. “Theory vs. Practice in Ethics: A Feminist Perspective on Justice

and Health Care” in L. Wayne Sumner, ed. Perspectives on Bioethics, Toronto:

University of Toronto Press, 1996: 187-209.

Susan Sherwin. “Cancer and Women: Some Feminist Ethics Concerns” in Carolyn

Sargent and Caroline Brettell, eds. Gender and Health: An International

Perspective, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996: 187-204.

Susan Sherwin. “Feminism and Bioethics” in Susan Wolf, ed. Feminism and

Bioethics: Beyond Reproduction, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996: 47-66.

Susan Sherwin. “Some Reflections on ‘Surrogacy’” in Gwynne Basen, Abby

Lippman, and Margrit Eichler, eds. Misconceptions: The Social Construction of

Choice and the New Reproductive Technologies, Prescott, Ontario: Voyageur

Publishing, 1994: 183-192.

Susan Sherwin. “The Certification of Health Care Ethics Consultants: Advantages

and Disadvantages” in Françoise Baylis, ed. The Health Care Ethics Consultant,

New York: Human Press, 1994: 11-24.

Michael Burgess, Arthur Frank, and Susan Sherwin. “Medicalization and the New

Reproductive Technologies” in Research Studies of Royal Commission on New

Reproductive Technologies, New Reproductive Technologies: Ethical Aspects,

Volume 1, Ottawa: Minister of Government Services, 1993: 149-189.

Susan Sherwin. “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: 11-17;

edited version reprinted in Cambridge Quarterly of Bioethics 4, 3 (Fall 1994): 533-

538.

Susan Sherwin. “Abortion Through a Feminist Ethics Lens” in Wes Cragg, ed.

Contemporary Moral Issues, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Canadian Feminist Ethics Theory Group: Lorraine Code, Maureen Ford, Kathleen

Martindale, Susan Sherwin, and Debra Shogan. “Some Issues in the Ethics of

Collaborative Work” in Eve Browning Cole and Susan Coultrap-McQuin, eds.

Explorations in Feminist Ethics: Theory and Practice, Bloomington: Indiana

University Press, 1992: 131-140.

Susan Sherwin. “Non-compliance and Non-treatment as Neglect” in Michael M.

Burgess and Brian E. Woodrow, eds. Contemporary Issues in Paediatric Ethics,

Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1991: 71-90. Abridged version re-published in

Calyx.

Susan Sherwin. “Feminism and Moral Relativism” in Douglas Odegard and Carole

Stewart, eds. Perspectives on Moral Relativism, Milliken, Ont.: Agathon Books,

1991: 63-79.

Susan Sherwin. “Feminist Ethics and New Reproductive Technologies” in Christine

Overall, ed. The Future of Human Reproduction, Toronto: The Women's Press, 1989:

259-271.

Susan Sherwin. “Philosophical Methodology and Feminist Methodology: Are They

Compatible?” in Sheila Mullett, Christine Overall, and Lorraine Code, eds. Feminist

Perspectives: Philosophical Essays on Method and Morals, Toronto: University of

Toronto Press, 1988: 13-28. Reprinted in Ann Garry & Marilyn Pearsall, eds.

Women, Knowledge, and Reality: Explorations in Feminist Philosophy, Unwin and

Hyman, 1989: 21-35.

Susan Sherwin. “From Feminism to a New Conception of Ethics” in CRIAW,

Knowledge Reconsidered: A Feminist Overview, 1984: 15-24.

Susan Sherwin. “Ethics and Issues” in David B.Shires and Brian K. Hennon, eds.

Family Medicine, A Guidebook for Practitioners of the Art, McGraw-Hill Book

Company, 1980. Second edition 1986.

Susan Sherwin. Chapter 4: “Comments on The Moral Rights of the Terminally Ill”

in John W. Davis, Barry Hoffmaster, Sarah J. Shorten, eds. Contemporary Issues in

Biomedical Ethics, The Human Press, Inc., 1978.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Susan Sherwin and Katie Stockdale. “Whither Bioethics Now? A Relational

Approach to Feminist Bioethics.” IJFAB 10.1(Spring 2017): 7-29

Susan Sherwin. “Looking Backwards, Looking Forward: Hopes for Bioethics’ Next Twenty-Five Years.” Bioethics 25.2 (February 2011): 75-82

Susan Sherwin and Meghan Winsby. “A Relational Perspective on Autonomy for Older Adults Residing in Nursing Homes.” Health Expectations, June 2011, 14(2): 9-11

Nuala Kenny, Susan Sherwin, and Françoise Baylis. Re-Visioning Public Health Ethics: A Relational Approach. Canadian Journal of Public Health, January-February2010, 101(1): 9-11

Françoise Baylis, Nuala Kenny, and Susan Sherwin. A Relational Account of Public Health Ethics, Public Health Ethics 2008 1(3): 196-209

Susan Sherwin. “Whither Bioethics? How Feminism Can Help Re-orient Bioethics.” International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 1(1), March 2008: 7-27.

Susan Sherwin. “Genetic Enhancement, Sports, and Relational Autonomy.” Sport Ethics and Philosophy August 2007, 1(2): 171-180.

Victoria Seavilleklein and Susan Sherwin. “The Myth of the Gendered Chromosome.” Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics , Winter 2007 16(1): 7-19.

Victor Maddalena and Susan Sherwin. “Vulnerable Populations in Rural Areas: Challenges for Ethics Committees.” HEC Forum December 2004, 16(4): 234-246.

Susan Sherwin. “BRCA Testing: Ethics Lessons for the New Genetics.” Clinical Investigative Medicine, 2004 (27, 1): 19-22.

Susan Sherwin and Francoise Baylis. “The Feminist Health Care Ethics Consultant as Architect and Advocate,” Public Affairs Quarterly, April 2003, 17(5): 141-158.

Susan Sherwin. “The Importance of Ontology for Feminist Policy-making in the Realm of Reproductive Technology,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, supplementary volume 26: Feminist Moral Philosophy, 2003: 273-295 .

Susan Sherwin. “Feminist Ethics and the Metaphors of AIDS” Journal of Medicineand Philosophy. 2001, 26(4): 343-364.

Susan Sherwin. “Etiska relexioner kring bioteknik och kvinnors hälsa” Kulturella Perspekiv Nr 2 2001 – Ärgäng 10: 5-20 (Sweden).

Susan Sherwin. “Moral Perception and Global Visions” Bioethics, 2001, 15(3):

175-188.

Susan Sherwin. 1999. “Autonomia relazionale.” Il Divenire Della Cura: Atti del convegno, Formazione/Come 17: 17-23.

Susan Sherwin. “Foundations, Frameworks, Lenses: The Role of Theories in Bioethics” Bioethics, July 1999, 13(3,4): 198-205.

Susan Sherwin. “Les approches féministes en bioéthique” Theologiques 1999, printemps, 7(1): 9-18.

Susan Sherwin. “Bioetica femminista e autonomia relazionale: una prospettiva nuova” Politeia 1999, 15(55): 3-11.

Jocelyn Downie and Susan Sherwin “A Feminist Exploration of Issues Around Assisted Death” St. Louis Law Review, 1996, XV (2): 303-320.

Susan Sherwin. “The Ethics of Baby-Making” Hastings Center Report, March-April 1995, 25(2): 34-37.

Susan Sherwin. “Feminism, Ethics and Cancer” Humane Medicine, October 1994, 10(4): 282-290.

Susan Sherwin. “Women in Clinical Studies: A Feminist View”. Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics (1994), 3:533-38.

Jocelyn Downie and Susan Sherwin “Feminism and Health Care Ethics Consultation” HEC Forum, May 1993, 5(3): 165-175.

Susan Sherwin. “Abortion through a Feminist Ethics Lens” Dialogue XXX, 1991: 327-42. [THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN WIDELY ANTHOLOGIZED IN SEVERAL TEXTS IN ETHICS, BIOETHICS, AND PHILOSOPHY OF LAW.]

Susan Sherwin. “Ethics, Feminism, and Caring” Queen's Quarterly, Spring 1989, 96(1): 313

Susan Sherwin. “Feminist Ethics and Medical Ethics: Two Different Approaches to Contextual Ethics” Hypatia, Summer 1989, 2(4): 57-72. Reprinted in Helen B. Holmes and Laura Purdy, eds. Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Susan Sherwin. “Feminist Ethics and In Vitro Fertilization” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, September 1987, 17(3): 265-284. [THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN WIDELY ANTHOLOGIZED IN SEVERAL TEXTS IN ETHICS AND BIOETHICS.]

Susan Sherwin. “Women's Health Issues: A Feminist Perspective” Health Care for Women International, 1987, 4.

Susan Sherwin. “Critical Notice: Dehumanizing Women” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, September 1987, 17(3): 671-82.

Susan Sherwin. “A Feminist Approach to Ethics” Dalhousie Review, 1984-85, Winter, 64(4): 704-13. Reprinted in Resources for Feminist Research: Special Philosophy Issue, September 1987.

Susan Sherwin. “Feminism and Theoretical Perspectives on Peace” Atlantis: Special Issue, Fall 1986, 12(1): 136-41.

Susan Sherwin. “Ethics: Towards a Feminist Approach” Canadian Women's Studies, Spring 1985 6(2): 21-23.

Susan Sherwin. “Affirmative Action: A Case for Substantative Labour Law” Valpariso University Law Review, Fall 1984, 19(1): 95-122.

Susan Sherwin. “The Concept of a Person in the Context of Abortion” Bioethics Quarterly, Summer 1981.

K. Edward Renner and Susan Sherwin. “Respect for Persons in a Study of the Use of Force by Police Officers” Clinical Research, February 1979, 7(1): 19-22. [HONOURABLE MENTION IN COMPETITION FOR NELLIE WESTERMAN PRIZE FOR RESEARCH IN ETHICS, 1977.]

Susan Sherwin. “The Implications of a Sexist Culture on the Doctor-Patient Relationship” Atlantis, Spring 1979, 4(2): 5-12.

Susan Sherwin. “When Does a ‘Girl’ Become a Woman?” and “Ethical Problems Associated with Human Reproductive Technology” in Non-Medical Issues in Contraception, The Proceedings of a Seminar Sponsored by the Canadian Committee for Fertility Research, September 11-12, 1979. Reprinted in the Nova Scotia Medical Bulletin, vol. 61, February 1982.

Susan Sherwin. “Virtues: A Perspective on the Situation of Women”Atlantis, Fall 1977, 3(1): 84-96.

Ruth Macklin and Susan Sherwin. “Experimenting on Human Subjects: Philosophical Perspectives” Case Western Reserve Law Review, Spring 1975, 25(3): 434-71.

SOME 35+ BOOK REVIEWS

Most Recent: Diagnosis Difference: The Moral Authority of Medicine by Abby L. Wilkerson. Hypatia, Spring 2001, 16(2): 172-176.

SELECTED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

* - Indicates keynote or plenary address or named lecture series

INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC ADDRESSES

“Responsibilities for Health Promotion in an Era of Social Connection and Global Threats”, invited plenary address and joint meeting of the International Association of Bioethics and the International Network of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, IAB World Congress, Rijecka, Croatia, September 2008.

“Whither Bioethics? From Feminist Bioethics to Public Ethics in an era of Global Threats” Medicine and Humanities Lecture Series, Washington University, Seattle WA, February 2008

“Fetuses, Embryos, Abortion, and Stem Cells: Sorting through the Arguments”, Launch of Katherine Haughton Hepburn Center, Bryn Mawr College, September 2006.

“Relational Existence and Termination: Policy Making for Abortion and Assisted Death.” The Ethics of Biomedical Research and Practice, North Dakota, Oct. 24-26, 2005.

‘Relational Autonomy and Medical Education.’ Susan Sherwin and Toni Suzuki Laidlaw, Conference of the International Network of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Sydney Australia, November 2005-05.

‘Genetic Enhancement, Sports, and Relational Autonomy.’ International Conference on Genetic Enhancement and Sports. Stockholm, Sweden, May 2005.

“Foundations of Feminist Bioethics”. Sixth World Congress. International Association of Bioethics. Brasilia, Brazil. October 2002.

“The Feminist Ethics Consultant as Architect and Advocate”. Susan Sherwin and Francoise Baylis. Conference of the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Brasilia, Brazil, October 2002.

“Personalizing the Political: Negotiating Feminist, Medical, Scientific, and Commercial Discourses Surrounding Breast Cancer” State University of New York-Stony Brook, New York, March 2002.

“Comparing Alternative Conceptual Frameworks for Reprogenetics Policy-Making”Hastings Center Project on Reprogenetics, Hastings Center, New York, February 2001.

“Moral Perceptions: How Global Bioethics can Inform and Expand Moral

Capacities in Health Ways” Fifth World Congress of the International Association ofBioethics, London, UK, September 2000.

“Ethical Reflections on Biotechnology and Women’s Health” Guest Lecture, Graduate Class in Biotechnology, University of Umea, Umea, Sweden, May 2000.

“Feminist Reflections on the Belmont Report” Conference in honour of the 20th anniversary of the Belmont Report, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, April 1999.

“Relational Autonomy: A Feminist Perspective” Guest Lecture, University of Milan,Milan, Italy, February 1999.

“Relational Autonomy” and “La Cura: Tra Relazione e Autonomia” Plenary Address, Conference sponsored by BEAM, Florence Italy, March 1999.*

“Applying the Moral Microscope to Medical Metaphors” NEH Scholar, faculty development grant in applied ethics, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri, January 1999.

“Foundations, Frameworks, Lenses: The Role of Theories in Bioethics” Plenary address, 4th World Congress, International Association of Bioethics, Tokyo, Japan, November 1998.

“Medical Metaphors and Ethics” Interdisciplinary Bioethics Seminar, University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan, November 1998.

“Envisioning and Approaching a Feminist Conception of Health” International Conference on Teaching to Promote Women's Health, Toronto, June 1996 (invited co-chair of feminist theory track).

“Relational View of the Fetus Revisited” Pacific APA meeting, Seattle, April 1996.

“A Relational Approach to Patient Autonomy” plenary address, Politics and Caring III Conference (Creating Safe and Healing Environments), Emory University, Atlanta, October 1995.

“Exploring the Ethical Dimensions of Women's Roles in Medical Research” Annual1995 Women and Health Lecture, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, September 1995.*

“Some Reflections on Bioethics Methodology” Bioethics Research: Policy, Methods and Strategies Conference, Rome, Italy, November 1995.

“Feminist Ambivalence About Autonomy” International Association of Bioethics Congress, Buenos Aires, October 1994.

“Feminist Ambivalence about Autonomy” Society for Bioethics Consulting Annual Meeting (in conjunction with American Association of Bioethics and Society for Human Values Conference), Pittsburgh, October 1994.

“Gender, Race, and Class in the Organization of Health Care” Women's Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 1993.

“Feminism and Bioethics” Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, April 1993.

“Women in Clinical Studies: A Feminist View” Workshop on Ethical and Legal Issues of Including Women in Clinical Studies, Institute of Medicine, Washington, D.C. March 1993.

“Ethics, ‘Feminine’ Ethics, and Feminist Ethics” and “The Ethical Significance of Power Relations in Health Care Contexts” as Keynote Speaker for “Exploring another Voice: Rethinking Nursing's Role in Ethical Decision Making” Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, December 1992.*

“Feminism, Autonomy, and Bioethics” The Hastings Center, Briarcliff Manor, New York, November 1991.

“Feminist Ethics and Collaborative Research” (with L. Code, K. Martindale, M. Ford, and D. Shogan), Feminist Ethics Conference, Duluth, Minnesota, October 1988.

“The Right to Health Care” Guest Speaker, The John Hopkins University, Baltimore,MD, April 1975.

“On Feminism and Medicine” Guest Speaker, Five Colleges Women's Studies Program, Amherst, Massachusetts, March 1975.

“Virtues: A Perspective on the Situation of Women” in Symposium: “Of Women andPhilosophy” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Annual Meeting,SanDiego, California, March 1975

SELECTED NATIONAL ACADEMIC ADDRESSES

“Negotiating Borders: Feminist Approaches to Interdisciplinary/International Borders.” Keynote Address: Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy Conference,Mt. Allison University, November 2016.

“Resolved: Bioethics has Done More Harm than Good.” Participant in three way debate, Plenary Session, Canadian Bioethics Society Annual Meeting, Banff, AB, 2013.

“No Longer Patient, Twenty Years On.” St. Boniface General Hospital, Winnipeg MA, June 2012.

“Moving with the Evidence: Challenges for Twenty-first Century Bioethics,” Plenary Address, Canadian Bioethics Society Annual Meeting, Hamilton, ON, 2009

“Towards a Public Ethic: Exploring Connections Between Ethical Responsibilities of Individuals and of Public Institutions”, School of Nursing, UBC May 2007

“Nobody’s Mother: The Ethics of Research on Human Embryos”, International Conference on New Reproductive Technologies, Malasapina BC May 2007

“The Politics of Ethics: The Growing Struggle over the Meaning of ‘Ethics’” Plenary Address, National Conference of the Canadian Association of Social Workers, Halifax, NS, June 2006.

“Determining Health Care Needs after the Human Genome Project: Reflections on Genetic Tests for Breast Cancer.” Presented at University of British Columbia (February 2004) and Carleton University, November 2004

“BRCA Testing: Lessons for the New Genetics” Plenary Session, Young Investigators Forum in context of annual meeting of Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Halifax, Sept. 2003

“Personalizing the Political: Attending to the Discourse Surrounding Breast Cancer”,Annual Conference of Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy; UWO, October 2003.

“Generational Health and Justice”, annual meeting of the International Women’s Forum.Toronto, October 2003.

“The Importance of Ontology for Feminist Policy-Making in the Realm of Biotechnology”, Feminist Ethics Conference, University of Western Ontario, London, August 2002.

“Ethical Dimensions of Regulating Commercial Human Genomics” Canadian Philosophical Association, Toronto, May 2002.

“Through the Looking Glass: A Feminist Philosopher’s Adventures in Policy Making” Canadian Philosophical Association, Toronto, May 2002.

“Governance of Research Involving Humans: Moving Forward” Health Canada, Ottawa, April 2002.

“The Value of International Conversations for Bioethics” Canadian Bioethics Society Annual Meeting. Quebec, October 2000.

“Biotechnology and Women’s Health” Building Bridges Conference, Victoria, BC, April 2000.*

“Introduction: Biotechnology and Women’s Health” Women and Biotechnology Workshop. York University, February 2000.

“Pursuing a Made-in-Canada Approach to Ethical Issues in Global Biotechnology” Plenary Address, Canadian Bioethics Society Annual Meeting, Edmonton, Alberta, October 1999.*

“There Be Method in her Metaphors: The Ethics of Metaphors in Bioethics” Individual Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, January 1999.

“There Be Method in her Metaphors: Examining the Ethics in Ethics Metaphors”

Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, September 1998. Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, Calgary, September 1998. Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri at St. Louis, January 1999. Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Programme, University of British Columbia, February 1999.

“Changing the Way ‘We’ Do Bioethics” plenary address, Canadian Bioethics Societyannual conference, Halifax, October 1997. *

“Reloading the Canon: Teaching Philosophy in a Feminist Age” CPA annual meeting, Brock University, May 1996.

“Normalizing Reproductive Technologies and the Implications for Autonomy” Technology and Culture Lecture Series, University of Manitoba, Feb. 1996; Also presented at Technology and Culture Series, University of King's College, March 1996.

“Translating Values into Facts: Making the Links Between Feminist Ethics and Social Change” Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy meeting, University of Western Ontario, London, November 1995.

“Relational Approaches to Autonomy in Health Care” Symposium, Canadian Philosophical Association Meetings, Montreal, June 1995.

“Relational Approaches to Autonomy in Health Care” Symposium, Canadian Philosophical Association Meetings, Montreal, June 1995.

“Feminist Health Care Ethics” and “Feminist Thoughts on Autonomy” Dartmouth

College Medical School, Darmouth, Vermont, February 1995.

“Feminist Ambivalence about Autonomy” C-SWIP Annual Meeting, University of Toronto, November 1994.

“Theory vs. Practice in Ethics: A Feminist Perspective on Justice in Health Care” Perspective on Bioethics Series, University of Toronto (Department of Philosophy and Centre for Bioethics), March 1994.*

“The Ethical Significance of Metaphors: A Feminist Perspective on AIDS” Conference on Feminist Ethics and Social Policy, Pittsburgh PA, November 1993. A longer version presented to jointly sponsored session of Women's Studies and Philosophy programs at McGill University and Concordia University, Nov. 1993.

“No Longer Patient Revisited” response to panellists on plenary session organised around No Longer Patient, Canadian Society for Women and Philosophy, Calgary, September 1993.*

“Fields and Boundaries: The Shifting Space of Disciplinarity” Canadian Federation for the Humanities Round Table at Learned Societies Conference, Ottawa, May 1993.

“The Regulation of Surrogacy” Law and Contemporary Affairs Conference, Toronto, Ontario, February 1993

“Feminism, Ethics, and Cancer Care” Annual Philippa Harris lecture at Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Ontario, March 1993.*

“Medical Metaphors: An Ethical Exploration” Philosophy Departments at Universityof Western Ontario, York University, and University of Minnesota, January-April 1993

“A Feminist Perspective on Justice and Health Care” Marxism in the New World Order Conference, Amherst, Massachusetts. November 1992; Women's Studies, University of Western Ontario, January 1993

“Should Health Care Ethics Consultants be Subject to a Form of Accreditation or Licensing?” Canadian Bioethics Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, October 1992

“Medicine's Role in Creating Ethics and Ideas of Sexuality” The Atlantic Sexuality Conference '92, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, June 1992.

“Feminism and Bioethics” Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, February 1992.

“The Place of Gender in the Context of Justice” Gender and Justice Conference, King's College, October 1991.

“Gender, Race and Class in the Organization of Health Care” C-SWIP, Winnipeg September 1991.

“The Difference Gender Makes: Ethics and Bioethics” Joint session of the CPA and CSHPS at the Learned Societies Meeting, Queen's University, Kingston, May 1991.

“Abortion through a Feminist Ethics Lens” Annual Meeting of Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, Queen’s University, September 1990.

“The Ideology of Health Care” Health Care Ethics Conference, Westminster Institute, London, Ontario, May 1990.

“Ascriptions of Illness: Is PMS a Disease?” Atlantic Philosophical Association, Sydney, Nova Scotia, October 1989, and Canadian Bioethics Society, Calgary, October 1989.

“Political Implications of Ascriptions of Illness” Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy Annual Meeting, McGill University, Montreal, September 1989.

“Feminism and Moral Relativism” Moral Relativism Conference, University of Guelph, Ontario, May 1989.

“Women, Illness, and Reason” Women and Reason Conference, University of Western Ontario, Feb. 1989; also at Queen's University as visiting Distinguished Woman Scholar, January 1989.

“Feminist and Medical Ethics: Two Different Approaches to Contextual Ethics” Department of Philosophy, Queen's University and Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta, November 1988.

“Feminist Ethics: Report of CRIAW Theory Group” (with L. Code, K. Martindale, M. Ford, and D. Shogan), Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, Edmonton, September 1988.

“Power and Competition Among Academic Feminists” Canadian Society for Womenin Philosophy, Edmonton, September 1988.

“Feminism, Ethics, and Caring” Keynote Address, Annual Meeting of Ban Righ Foundation, Queen's University, Kingston, April 1988.*

“Is Blame Non-Feminist?” Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, Guelph, Ontario, September 1987.

“Reproductive Technology” Occupational Ethics Group, Canadian Philosophical Association, Hamilton, May 1987.

“Non-treatment and Non-compliance as Neglect” Pediatric Ethics Conference, Calgary, Alberta, May 1987.

“Feminist Ethics” Workshop on Feminist Ethics, Canadian Research Institute for theAdvancement of Women, Montreal, March 1987.

“Feminist Ethics and In Vitro Fertilization” Women's Studies Program, University ofAlberta, Edmonton, March 1987.

“Reproductive Technology” American Philosophical Association, Boston, December1986

“In Vitro Fertilization: A Test Case” CPA, Winnipeg, May 1986. “Women's Health Issues: Some Concluding Remarks” final plenary session, Women's Health CongressInternational, Halifax, November 1986.*

“Feminist Ethics” Western CPA, Saskatoon, October 1985. “Is Equality All It's Cracked Up to Be?” Western Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, October 1985.

“Philosophical Methodology and Feminist Methodology: Are They Compatible?” C-SWIP Annual Meeting, Vancouver, October 1985.

“Feminism and Theoretical Perspectives on Peace” Canadian Women's Studies Association, Learned Societies, Montreal, May 1985.

“Towards a Feminist Strategy for Disarmament” C-SWIP annual Meeting, Concordia University, November 1984.

“Moral Problems in In Vitro Fertilization” Moral Priorities in Medical Research, Second Hannah Conference in the History of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, November 1984.

“Ethics: A Feminist Approach” C-SWIP session at the CPA annual meeting, LearnedSocieties, Guelph, June 1984.

“From Feminism to a New Conception of Ethics” CRIAW annual meeting, Vancouver, November 1983 and Dalhousie Women’s Faculty Organization Colloquium, October 1983.

“Co-operation Between Opposing Groups” Canadian Society of Women in Philosophy, London, Ontario, 1982.

“Co-operation in Action: Unions and Moral Theory” Queen's University Philosophical Colloquium, March 1982.

“Justice in Health Care” Workshop in Bioethics, Westminster Institute, London, Ontario, June 1981.

“Human Reproduction Technology: Some Concerns” Canadian Philosophical Association, Halifax 1981.

“The Concept of a Person in the Context of Abortion” Conference on Biomedical Ethics, sponsored by Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, November 1980.

“The Implications of a Sexist Culture on the Doctor-Patient Relationship” CRIAW Annual Conference, Quebec, November, 1978, and Nova Scotia Meeting at MSVU, February 1979.

“Experimenting with Human Subjects” Atlantic Regional Philosophical Association,Charlottetown, September 1977.

“Sharing Societal Blame” Canadian Philosophical Association, Fredericton, May 1977.

“If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem: Attribution of Blame for Socially Pervasive Practices” Symposium on Action, Responsibility, and Blame, California State College at Sonoma, October 1976.

“Can Anyone Be Guilty If Everyone is Guilty?” Simon Fraser University, August 1976.

“Reflections on ‘The Problem of Prostitution’” Symposium, Canadian Philosophical Association, Quebec, June 1976.

“Is Liberalism Incompatible with Feminism?” Atlantic Regional Philosophical Association Meetings, Sydney, March 1976.

“Thriving: An Improvement Over Happiness", Canadian Philosophical Association meetings, Edmonton, June, 1975, and Atlantic Regional Philosophical Association, Wolfville, March 1975.

“Virtues: A Question of Justice” Halifax Philosophical Circle, Halifax, October 1974.

PLUS MANY COMMENTARIES, ESPECIALLY AT ANNUAL MEETINGS OF CANADIAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION AND CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR WOMEN IN PHILOSOPHY, AND AT LEAST ONE PRESENTATION PER YEAR TO DALHOUSIE PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM SERIES.

SELECTED INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC ADDRESSES

“Feminist Bioethics” Women’s Bookstore, Florence, Italy, March 1999.

“Feminist Ethics and Breast Cancer” International Conference on Breast Cancer meeting on Breast Cancer and the Environment, Kingston, Ontario, May 1995; variations on this talk were also presented at the Nova Scotia Art Gallery in conjunction with their show on Breast Cancer, November 1995 and at MSVU at Breast Cancer and the Environment Conference, March 1996.

“Feminist Ethics and Health Care” Medical Ethics Program for physicians at the University of Chicago, April 1993.

SELECTED NATIONAL PUBLIC ADDRESSES

“Shifting Theories, Shifting Lenses: How to Understand ‘Justice’ in Health Care Debates” Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Halifax, March 2002.

“Informed Choice and the Triple Screen Test” Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada annual meeting, Calgary, Alberta, June 1995.

“Feminist Ethics and New Reproductive Technologies” Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women” Ottawa, December 1993.

“Geneticization as a Women's Issue” panel discussion at annual meeting of the Royal Society of Canada, May 1993.*

“Social Dimensions of New Reproductive Technologies” Annual Meeting of Societyof Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada, Halifax, June 1990.

“Reproductive Technologies: Some Criteria for Evaluation” Canada, the World and the Future Conference, University of Alberta, November 1988.

“Women and Ethics” guest speaker at annual meeting of Canadian Federation of University Women, St. John, New Brunswick, August, 1984.

“Feminism and Psychiatry: Are They Compatible?” Pfizer Lecture, Montreal General Hospital, May 1981.

“Personhood and Abortion” Department of Obstetrics, Montreal General Hospital, May 1981.

“Moral Responsibilities in the Face of Conflicting Needs” Department of Family Medicine, Montreal General Hospital, May 1981.

“When Does a Girl Become a Woman?” and “Ethical Problems Associated with Human Reproductive Technology” national meeting of Canadian Committee of

Fertility Control, Val David, Quebec, September 1979.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

SELECTED ACADEMIC SERVICE (OUTSIDE DALHOUSIE)

· Member, Expert Panel on The Health Effects of Conducted Energy Weapons, Council of Canadian Academies and Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2012-13)

· 2010-12, Member, Chief Public Health Officer of Canada’s Ethics Advisory Committee·Member, Selection Committee, Humanities Award, Premier’s Discovery Awards, Ontario, 2008· Member, Nominating Committee, Academy 1, Royal Society of Canada, 2006-08, 2012-14· Member, Ethics Committee Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians of Canada, 2006-08.· Member, Standing Committee on Ethics, CIHR, 2001- 06. · Member, Sectoral Commission on Natural and Social Sciences, Canadian Commission of UNESCO: 2001-03 · Member, Committee on Ethics, Canadian Commission of UNESCO: 2001-03 · Member, Research Council, Canadian Institute of Advanced Research (CIAR), 2001-04 · Member, Ethics and Equity Committee, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, 2001-2007. · Member, Working Group on Ethics, CIHR: 2000-01. Member, Working Group on Women and Health Protection, 1998-2001. · Member, Advisory Committee on Reproductive and Genetic Technologies, Health Canada: 1996- 2004. · International Association of Bioethics, Board member: 1995-2001 [ONLY CANADIAN BOARD MEMBER] · Co-coordinator, Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) International Network: 2001- 2003. · Co-organizer, International Conference of FAB, Brazil 2002. · Member, Advisory Committee SSHRC Strategic Plan 1995-2000. · Advisory Committee, Feminist Approaches to Bioethics International Network: 1994-present. · Advisory Committee, SSHRC, Strategic Research Grants Project: June 1995. · Advisory Committee, Law Reform Commission of Nova Scotia, Advanced Directives Project: 1993-1994. · Consultant, Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies: 1991-1993. · Member, Canadian Philosophical Association Ad hoc committee on Women in Philosophy: 1991-1992. · Member, Advisory Committee on Applied Ethics Project, Canadian Federation of the Humanities: 1988. · Executive Committee, (Co-ordinator and conference organizer) C-SWIP: 1985-1986; deputy coordinator 1993-1994; coordinator 1994-1995.

· Member, Jurisprudence of Labour Law Project, Westminster Institute, 1982-1983. · Faculty Member, Workshop in Bioethics, Westminster Institute: June 14th-20th, 1981. · Member, Science Council of Canada Committee on Science and Legal Policy, 1980-1982.

SELECTED UNIVERSITY SERVICE

· Search Committee, Vice-President Research, Dalhousie University: 1999-2000. · Ad hoc Committee on Faculty Governance, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: 1999-2000. · Co-ordinator, Women’s Studies, 1996-2000; 1987-88 · Elected Member of Senate, 1995-1996; Steering Committee of Senate, 1995-1996. · Ad Hoc Committee on Senate Reform, 1994-1995. · Council to Chair PhD oral defences, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Dalhousie University: 1993-present. · Founding Member, Dalhousie Women Faculty Organization; Executive Committee: 1991-1993; President: 1980-1981. · Member, President's Advisory Committee on Developing a Policy on Racism and Sexism: 1991-1993. · Member, Advisory Committee on Implementation of Affirmative Action Policy, 1991-1993. · Member, Advisory Committee to the President's Advisor on Women, 1991-1993. · Member, Academic Planning Committee, Faculty of Graduate Studies, 1989- 1992.· Member, Task Force on Health Studies, Dalhousie 1990-1991. · Member, Faculty Council, Graduate Studies, 1989-1992. · Member, Search Committee for Dean of Arts and Social Sciences, Dalhousie University: 1988, 1990. · Member, Advisory Committee, Patchwork, Women's Community Resource Centre:1986-1987. · Member, Dalhousie Women's Studies Committee, and Dalhousie representative on ad hoc committee of three Metro universities on Women's Studies: 1985-1987. · Co-ordinator, Workshop on Women and Academic Administration held in June 1986 and follow-up sessions with workshop participants and senior administration at Dalhousie. (Author of final report.) Planning committee for 1987 workshop and participant. · Chair, President's Ad Hoc Committee on Comparability of Male and Female Academics at Dalhousie University: 1985-1987. · Advisor to the Vice-President Academic on Academic Staff Relations: 1985-1986. · Member University Budget Advisory Committee (BAC I): 1985-1986. · DFA Delegate, AGM CAUT Council, Ottawa: May 1984. · Member, President's Advisory Council: 1983-1985. · Member, Deanship Search Committee, Faculty of Graduate Studies: 1984. · Faculty of Arts and Sciences Promotion Committee: member 1983-1985. · Senate Academic Planning Committee: member 1980-1983. · Senate: member 1979-1981, 1982-1987, 1990-1997. · NSCUFA Council: member 1979-1981, 1983.

· Committee to Administer the Collective Agreement: co-chair 1980-1981. · Association-Board Committee: member 1980-1981. · Dalhousie Faculty Association Negotiating Committee: 1977-1980. · Arts & Science, Faculty Council: member 1977-1980; nominating committee member 1978-1979. · Faculty Library Committee: member 1976-1977. · CAUT Corresponding Member on the Status of Women: 1975-1979. · Dalhousie Faculty Association, Executive Committee: member 1976-1981, 1983-1984; President 1979-1980. · Various ad hoc committees for DFA, Senate, A&S, and Graduate Studies, President's Office.

SELECTED COMMUNITY SERVICE

· Member, Working Group on Women and Health Protection (c/0 DES Action) 1998- 2000· Ad Hoc Committee on Practice Guidelines Review for G-CSF, Victoria General Hospital: 1995-1996. · Board of Directors, and member of Personnel Committee, Halifax Transition House Association: 1984-1987. · Chair of Personnel Committee, Halifax Transition House Association: 1985-1987. · Selection Committee, YWCA Women's Recognition Dinner: 1984. · Advisory Committee, Patchwork, Halifax, Women's Community Resource Centre. · Numerous talks at local hospitals, churches, and community groups. · Consultant Grace Hospital on Reproductive Technology program and on policy of addressing violence against women. · Ethics Committee, Nova Scotia Hospital, Halifax Infirmary.

EDITORIAL BOARDS AND REFEREE COMMITTEES

EDITORIAL BOARDS

· Dialogue, Journal of the Canadian Philosophical Association: 1977-1982, 1989-1992. · Atlantis, A Women’s Studies Journal: 1977-1995. · Canadian Journal of Feminist Ethics· Guest Editor: Special Philosophy Issue of Atlantis 13(2): Spring 1988.

JOURNAL REVIEWS

· International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics· Bioethics· Dialogue, Journal of the Canadian Philosophical Association · Atlantis, A Women’s Studies Journal · Journal of Clinical Ethics· Canadian Journal of Feminist Ethics· Ethics· Journal of Medicine· Hypatia

· Canadian Journal of Philosophy· Journal of Clinical Ethics· Philosophy Research Archives· Bulletin of History of Medicine

GRANT REVIEWS

· Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) · Medical Research Council of Canada (MRC) · Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)· British Academy Research Readerships · Health and Welfare Canada Committee on AIDS · Australia Research Council · UK Research Council

MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS

· Routledge · Cornell University Press · Westview Press · University of California Press · Broadview Press · Temple University Press · Bacon & Allyn Press

EXTERNAL REVIEWER

· Philosophy Program at University of Victoria: 1991.· Invited by Ontario Council on Graduate Studies to serve as reviewer of Graduate Program in Philosophy at Queen’s University: 1989 (declined).· Invited to review several other philosophy programs in Canada

GRADUATE SUPERVISION

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

· Chidi Oguamanam 2003-04· Monique Lanoix January 2005- December 2006.· Kirstin Borgerson, 2008-09

DOCTORAL SUPERVISOR

· Ami Harbin, Philosophy PhD, completed 2011· Victoria Seavilleklein, Philosophy PhD, completed 2007. · James Anderson, Philosophy PhD, completed 2007.· Meredith Schwartz, Philosophy PhD, completed 2012.· Sue Street, Interdisciplinary PhD, withdrew. · Victor Madelena, Interdisciplinary PhD, completed 2005. · Kira Thomsons, Philosophy, completed 2006. · Nancy Comeau, Interdisciplinary PhD, completed 2003.

· Carolyn Macleod, Philosophy, completed 2000. · Christy Simpson, Philosophy, completed 2000. · Meredith Ralston, Political Science (co-supervisor), completed 1988.

DOCTORAL COMMITTEES

· Michael Doan, Philosophy, expected 2014 · Erin Fredericks, Interdisciplinaryy PhD, completed 2013

· Sharon Batt, Interdisciplinary PhD, completed 2012. · Lisa Kretz, Philosophy, completed 2008. · John Hubert, Philosophy (withdrew). · Beth-Ann Lloyd, Education, completed 2000. · Giselle Thibault, Education, completed 1983. · Lois Block, Education (withdrew). · Houston Stewart, Education (withdrew). · Marlene Mercer, Interdisciplinary PhD (withdrew).

EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR DISSERTATIONS

· Martin Kelly, Macquarie University, Australia, 2003.· Barbara Nicholas, University of Otago, New Zealand, 1996. · Jennifer Parks, MacMaster University, 1996. · Christine Koggel, Queen's University, 1994. · Sharon Ikonomidis, University of Toronto, 1997. · Paula Chidwick, University of Guelph, 1992. · Susan Wendell, University of British Columbia, 1977.

SUPERVISOR FOR MASTER’S THESES

· Julia Watt, Philosophy, completed 2004. · Meredith Schwartz, Philosophy, completed 2004. · Brenda Novak, Philosophy, completed 2004. · Jeffrey Kirby, Philosophy, completed 2003. · Mary McNally, Philosophy, completed 2003. · Lisa Minuk, Philosophy, completed 2002. · Julie Singleton, Women’s Studies, completed 2001. · Patrycja Maksalon, Women’s Studies, completed 2001. · Adwoa Buhene, Philosophy, completed 1997. · Dierdre McKinnon, Philosophy, completed 1996. · Kim Short, Philosophy, completed 1993. · Adda Stefansdottir, Philosophy, completed 1993. · Diane Swartz, Philosophy, completed 1992. · Amy Bell, Philosophy, completed 1991. · Heidi Grasswick, Philosophy, completed 1990. · Paul d'Entremont, Philosophy, completed 1990. · Martha Jill Gatfield, Philosophy, completed 1990. · Leslie Wilson, Philosophy, completed 1985. · Catriona Talbot, Philosophy, completed 1977. · Charles Kere, Philosophy, completed 1976.

Also committee member for many philosophy and Women’s Studies Master's students, plus students in education, nursing, sociology and social anthropology.

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

· Canadian Commission for UNESCO (2002) · Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (Co-ordinator, 1985-86 and 1994-95) · Canadian Philosophical Association (Executive Committee 1983-85) · Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women · Nova Scotia Women's Health Education Network · Canadian Society of Bioethics · International Association of Bioethics (Board Member 1995-2000) · International Feminist Approaches to Bioethics