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Director
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DIRECTOR
Rosemarie Tong is Distinguished Professor of Health Care Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. From 1989 to 1998 she was Thatcher Professor in Medical Humanities and Philosophy at Davidson College. She also taught at Williams College, 1978-1988; was Olmstead Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Lafayette College in 1993; and Stacy Davidson, Jr. Professor at the University of Mississippi during 1998. She was selected as the 1986 Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Among the associations to which she belongs are: the American Philosophical Association, North American society for Social Philosophy, American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics; International Association of Bioethics, International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Society for Women in Philosophy, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. Professor Tong's books include Women, Sex, and the Law ; Ethics in Policy Analysis; Feminist Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction; Feminine and Feminist Ethics; Controlling Our Reproductive Destiny: A Technological and Philosophical Perspective (with Lawrence Kaplan); Feminist Approaches to Bioethics ; and Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction . Her edited books include Feminist Philosophies: Problems, Theories, and Applications and Feminist Philosophy: Essential Readings in Theory, Reinterpretation, and Application , (with Nancy Tuana) and Globalizing Feminist Bioethics (with Aida Santos and Gwen Anderson). She has been a consultant to the ACLS, the Fulbright Foundation, the North Carolina Medical Society, and various curricular programs involving women's studies and bioethics. She is immediate past co-coordinator of the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, and current Chair of the National Committee for the Status of Women for the American Philosophical Association, and a member of the Executive Board of the International Association for Bioethics. Her research interests include ethics; private, professional, and public morality; global bioethics; genetic and reproductive technology; health care reform, biomedical research (insofar as it involves vulnerable or underrepresented populations); foundations of feminist thought; and mind/body medicine. Currently, she is co-editing an anthology entitled Feminist Bioethics, Human Rights & the Developing World: Integrating Global and Local Perspectives (with Anne Donchin and Susan Dodds), and is completing a book entitled Health Care Ethics: Interdisciplinary and Crosscultural Perspectives.
Degrees:B.A. Marygrove College, 1970 Honorary Degrees:L.L.D. Marygrove College, 1987
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