Applying Nonideal Theory to Bioethics

Elizabeth Victor is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Liberal Studies at William Paterson University where she also serves on the Institutional Review Board. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of South Florida. Her research focuses on feminist bioethics, agency theory, the concept of vulnerability in different institutional contexts, and how to address implicit bias in clinical contexts. She is the author of Vulnerability and incarceration: Evaluating protections for prisoners in research (Lexington Books 2019). Her recent work has appeared in Hastings Center Report, Journal of Medical Ethics, Nursing Ethics, Journal of Clinical Ethics, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, and Science and Engineering Ethics.Laura Guidry-Grimes is an assistant professor in the Department of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and she is a clinical ethicist at UAMS and Arkansas Children’s Hospital. In her position as a clinical ethicist, she provides consultation on complex cases, reviews and develops policies, offers ethics education, addresses moral distress, and contributes to ethical climate of the institution. She also teaches students across the health professions, and she frequently partners with the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy at Georgetown University. She worked on projects for the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, and Pan American Health Organization. Her research focuses on psychiatric ethics, disability bioethics, and vulnerability in clinical contexts. She recently co-authored Basics of Bioethics, Fourth Edition with Robert M. Veatch (Routledge, 2020).

• Part 1. Nonidealized Methodologies.- Chapter 1. Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.- Chapter 2. Decolonial and/or Postcolonial Approaches to Bioethics.- Chapter 3. Queer Approaches to Bioethics.- Chapter 4. Narrative Methodology as a Nonideal Approach to Bioethics.- Part 2. Nonidealized Applications to Bioethical Research & Practice.- Chapter 5.  Epistemology and Knowing in Bioethics.- Chapter 6. Conceptualizing Concepts of Autonomy, Rationality, Risk/Benefit.- Chapter 7. Clinical Ethics Consultation and Moral Stress/Hazard.- Part 3. Policy Implications of Nonidealized Theory in Bioethics.- Chapter 8. U.S. Policy.- Chapter 9. Specific Other Policy Analysis/Recommendations.- Part 4. Global Bioethics Through a Nonidealized Lens.- Chapter 10. Justice and Fairness in Global Research and Medical Practices.- Chapter 11. Priorities in Global Research and Medical Practices.- Chapter 12. Topical Issues.