HEALTH ETHICS TODAY

Volume 9, Number 3, December 1998

In Profile: Laura Shanner

Ms. Shanner Laura Shanner joined the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre and the Department of Public Health Sciences this July as an Associate Professor of Bioethics. Previously, she held the I'Anson Assistant Professorship at the University of Toronto's Joint Centre for Bioethics and the Department of Philosophy. Her Ph.D. in Philosophy and Bioethics from Georgetown University (Washington, DC) included a year of site visits to infertility clinics in Australia, and she currently contributes to clinical ethics committees, Health Canada policy processes, and the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada. In January, she will assume the role of co-coordinator of the International Network for Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Her main research interests emphasize feminist bioethics, reproductive issues, genetics, and women's health, while her teaching in bioethics has also included philosophical theory, death and dying, research, mental health, and multidisciplinary overviews of the field. In January, she will be teaching two graduate courses at JDHEC: "Health Care Ethics" and "Public Health Ethics, Law and Policy."

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