The International Network on

Feminist Approaches to Bioethics

        REPORT OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE

The Fab Nominating Committee (Laura Shanner, Susana Sommer and Anne Donchin,
chair) is pleased to report the selection of the following slate of officers
to serve for a two year term beginning January 1, 2003. Biographical sketches
of both the nominees and ex officio members of the Board are included below.

Following the newly established  system for rotating off the board Laura
Purdy, Mary Rorty and Aida Santos have been replaced by three new board
nominees. In accord with established custom there are no contests.  However,
to enlarge geographical representation members present at the Business
Meeting at the FAB conference may propose alternative candidates after
securing their permission.  Their names will be added to the mail ballot to
be sent to all members following the Conference.

FAB OFFICERS PROPOSED BY NOMINATING COMMITTEE

For co-coordinators:
Hilde Nelson (USA) and Susan Dodds (Australia)

For Advisory Board (elected members)
Gwen Anderson (USA)
Rachel Ankeny (Australia)
Debora Diniz (Brazil)
Arleen Salles (Argentina and USA)
Laura Shanner (Canada)
Viola Schubert-Lehnhardt (Germany)
Susan Sherwin (Canada)
Susana Sommer (Argentina)
Rosie Tong (USA)


For Advisory Board (ex officio members appointed by the coordinators):
Alison Brookes (book review editor)
Anne Donchin (treasurer)
Lenore Kuo (membership secretary)
Maggie Little (newsletter editor)
Florencia Luna (liaison to the IAB Board)
Hilde Nelson (website manager)
Wendy Rogers (coordinator of country representatives)


For Advisory Board (ex officio members are appointed by the coordinators):
Susan Dodds (coordinator)
Anne Donchin (treasurer)
Lenore Kuo (membership secretary and assistant treasurer)
Maggie Little (newsletter editor)
Florencia Luna (IAB liason to the FAB board)
Hilde Nelson (website and listserv manager)
Hilde Nelson (coordinator)
Wendy Rogers (coordinator of country representatives)
BIOGRAPHIES OF OFFICERS NOMINATED FOR ELECTED POSITIONS

        Gwen Anderson received her doctorate in Nursing from Boston College
and was then awarded a post-doctorate at Stanford University.  Her principal
scholarly area is the phenomenological analysis of genetic issues and the
application of this analysis to nursing practice.  She served as FAB co-
coordinator from 1996-98.

        Rachel A. Ankeny is a Lecturer and Director of the Unit for History
and Philosophy of Science (HPS) at the University of Sydney, Australia. She
holds master’’s degrees in philosophy and in bioethics as well as a Ph.D. in
HPS from the University of Pittsburgh. She is the FAB co-country
representative for Australia and the chair of the grants committee. Her work
is at the intersection of philosophy of medicine and bioethics, and
particularly on issues in genetics, reproductive technology, and
transplantation.

        Debora Diniz holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology.  She is Professor of
Ethics and Bioethics at the Catholic University of Brasilia and Director of
the NGO Anis: Institute of Bioethics, Human Rights and Gender. She is the
recipient of grants from both the MacArthur and Ford Foundations and
currently co-chairs the local arrangements committee for the FAB Conference
in Brasilia..

        Susan Dodds is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of
Wollongong where she teaches bioethics, philosophy of feminism and political
philosophy and is Deputy Director of the Institute of Social Change and
Critical Inquiry. Her current research is on commodification in ethics and
political theory and human research ethics committees.

        Hilde Lindemann Nelson is Associate Professor in the Philosophy
Department at Michigan State University. For five years an editor at the
Hastings Center Report, she is the coauthor, with James Lindemann Nelson, of
The Patient in the Family and Alzheimer’s: Answers to Hard Questions for
Families. She has edited two collections—Feminism and Families and Stories
and Their Limits: Narrative Approaches to Bioethics—and co-edited Meaning and
Medicine: A Reader in the Philosophy of Health Care. With Sara Ruddick, she
co-edits the Feminist Constructions Series for Rowman and Littlefield. Her
most recent book is Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair.

        Arleen L. F. Salles (Ph.D. Philosophy SUNY Buffalo) teaches
philosophy at Montclair State University and is a docent in the Master
Program in Applied Ethics at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her
research and teaching focus on ethical theory, bioethics, and political
philosophy. She has written on the topic of emotions in ethical theory,
cloning, particularism, and cultural differences in healthcare and has edited
the anthologies Decisiones de Vida y Muerte (1995) and Bioetica (1998) with
Florencia Luna, and Bioethics:Latin American Perspectives (2002) with Maria
Julia Bertomeu.

        Susan Sherwin received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stanford
University. At Case Western Reserve University she co-edited the first
anthology in bioethics. She has been teaching philosophy and women’s studies
at Dahousie University since 1975 and is currently Munro Professor of
Philosophy there. Her publications include No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics
and Health Care (1992) and The Politics of Women’s Health: Exploring Agency
and Autonomy (1998). She is currently co- coordinator of FAB. A founding
member of FAB’s Board, she served as FAB liaison to the IAB Board during her
terms on the IAB Board (1994-2001).

        Laura Shanner (Ph.D., Philosophy, Georgetown University) is Associate
Professor of Health Ethics at the University of Alberta, Canada.  The
Canadian Institutes of Health Research has recently funded her for five years
of full-time research in ethics, law and policy in reproduction.  She also
works with hospital ethics committees and Canada’s Federal Ministry of Heath
and teaches health ethics across several disciplines. She has been a member
of the FAV Advisory Board since 1996 and co-coordinator during 1999-2000.

        Viola Schubert-Lehnhardt received her Ph.D. in Philosophy at Martin
Luther University in Halle/Wittenberg, Germany.  She is currently leader of a
women’s research group and member of the Enquete-commission, “Protection of
Dignity of Human Life” in the federal state of Thuringia. Her research topics
include medical ethics, abortion, health care reform and gender differences
in health behavior.  She is author of a number of books in German on heath
care issues and bioethics and several articles in English.  She has attended
all IAB and FAB conferences since their founding and served on the FAB
Advisory Board since its inception.

        Susana Sommer is a biologist at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Her
fields of interest encompass the ethics of assisted reproduction and
genetics.  She is the author of a book on genetics and bioethics as well as a
number of articles including “Women’s Reproductive Rights and Public Policy
in Argentina” in Bioethics:Latin American Perspectives, A. Salles and M.J.
Bertomeu, eds. (Rodopi, 2002). Her most recent book "Por que las vacas se
volvieron locas" (Why the cows went mad) is on biotechnology, transgenic
plants and animals.

        Rosemarie (Rosie) Tong is a Distinguished Professor of Health Care
Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and Director of the Center for
Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte.  Rosie is the author of Women, Sex, and the Law (1984), Feminine
and Feminist Ethics (1992), Feminist Approaches to Bioethics:  Theoretical
Reflections and Practical Applications (1997), Feminist Thought:  A More
Comprehensive Introduction (1998), and Globalizing Feminist Bioethics:
Crosscultural Perspectives with Aida Santos and Gwen Anderson (2000).  She
has served as FAB’s coordinator since 1998.


BIOGRAPHIES OF APPOINTED BOARD MEMBERS


Alison Brookes (Book Review Editor)

Anne Donchin (Treasurer) is Emerita Professor of Philosophy at Indiana
University, Indianapolis and Research Scholar with the Bioethics Education
Program at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.  She is a founder and former
coordinator of FAB and a member of the editorial board of the IAB journal,
Bioethics.  She has published numerous articles at the intersection of
bioethics and feminism, coedited with Laura Purdy Embodying Bioethics Recent
Feminist Advances (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999) based on presentations at
the first FAB conference in 1996, and is now completing revisions on
Procreation, Power, and Personal Autonomy: A Feminist Critique.

Lenore Kuo (Membership Secretary) completed her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently Professor and Chair of
Women’s Studies at California State University, Fresno and the author of
numerous articles on topics overlapping feminist studies and bioethics. For
many years she worked as a volunteer crisis counselor for Women Against
Violence.  Her book Revolutionizing Prostitution: Gender and Policy is to be
published shortly by New York University Press.

Maggie Little (Editor-in-chief) is a Senior Research Scholar of the Kennedy
Institute of Ethics, and Associate Professor of the Philosophy Department of
Georgetown University. Her research interests are in ethics, bioethics, and
feminist theory; her book on feminist theory and abortion, entitled Abortion,
Intimacy, and the Duty to Gestate, is due out with Oxford University Press
next year. She has served as managing Editor of FAB's newsletter for the last
three years.

Florencia Luna (Liaison between FAB and the IAB Board) received an M.A. from
the University of Columbia (USA) and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the
University of Buenos Aires. She teaches bioethics at the University of Buenos
Aires (UBA) and FLASCO (Latinamerican University of Social Sciences) where
she also directs a research program. A Board Member of the International
Association of Bioethics (IAB) since 1999, she is also temporary advisor to
World Health Organization (WHO) and CIOMS, and editor of  PRESPECTIVAS
BIOETICAS. Presently she is working in issues related to research in
developing countries, international codes of ethics, and genetics and ethics.

Hilde Nelson (website manager) see biography on previous page

Wendy Rogers (Coordinator of Country Representatives) completed her
undergraduate medical training in Australia in 1983, specialising in family
practice in 1987. Her interest in ethics was sparked by ethical issues
arising in practice, leading to completion of a philosophy degree and a PhD
on ethical issues in general practice. She is currently working as a research
fellow at Edinburgh University. Her current research interests include the
doctorpatient relationship, trust, ethical conflicts between population and
individual approaches to health care, and the menopause.