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BONNIE STEINBOCK
PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Address: (Office) HUM 257, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany,NY12222
Telephone: (Office) (518) 442-4262
(Fax) (518) 442-4259
Email:
Degrees: Ph.D. -- University of California, Berkeley, 1974
B.A. -- TuftsUniversity, 1968, summa cum laude
Academic Employment:
Faculty, Alden March Bioethics Institute, AlbanyMedicalCollege, 2005-.
Faculty, UnionGraduateCollege – Mount Sinai School of Medicine Bioethics program, 2007-.
Full Professor, Department of Philosophy, University
at Albany, State University of New York, 1993-. Joint appointments in the Department of Public Policy, RockefellerCollege and the Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior, School of Public Health, University at Albany/SUNY.
Chair, Department of Philosophy, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1991-4; 1998-August 2001; January 2002-2004; acting chair January 2009.
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University at Albany/SUNY, 1985-1993. Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University at Albany/SUNY, 1977-85.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The College of Wooster, 1974-77.
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Honors and Awards:
Scholarly residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Lake Como, Italy, Sept. 25-Oct. 23, 2008. Wrote a chapter on stem cell research for 2nd edition of Life Before Birth: The Moral and Legal Standing of Embryos and Fetuses
Fulbright Senior Specialists Candidate, 2006-2011
2006 SUNY Research Foundation Research & Scholarship Award
Elected Chair of the Fellows Council, The Hastings Center, 2006-2008
2005 University at Albany President’s Award for Excellence in Research
Elected Vice-Chair of the Fellows Council, The HastingsCenter, 2004
Elected to the Fellows Council of the HastingsCenter, 2002
Elected Fellow of The HastingsCenter, 1986
Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1968
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, junior year at Tufts, 1967
Editorial Boards and Consulting:
North American consulting editor, Oxford University Press, Issues in Biomedical Ethics series, 1995-.
Consulting editor for Medical Ethics for the Physician, 1990-1993.
Member, editorial board, Bioethics, 1985-2007.
Member, editorial board, American Journal of Bioethics, 2005-08.
Advisory editor, Oxford Philosophy Online, 2008.
Board Memberships:
Advisory member, Institute of Medicine, Law & Bioethics, Universities of Manchester and Liverpool, 1996-.
Board member, National Advisory Board on Ethics in Reproduction (NABER), 1995-98.
Ex-officio member of the Board of Directors of the Hastings Center, 2004-2008.
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Collaborative Projects:
Member, Pharmacologically Treating Behavioral and Emotional Disturbances in Children: Engaging the Controversies, The HastingsCenter, 2007-.
Member, Project on The Ideal of Nature: Appeals to Nature in Debates about Biotechnology and the Environment, The Hastings Center, 2006-2007.
Member, Project on Reprogenetics, The Hastings Center, 2000-2003.
Member, Project on Ethics and Public Health, The Hastings Center, 2000-2002.
Member, New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, Advisory Group on Assisted Reproductive Technologies, 1999-2000. Funded by the Ford Foundation, the result was a CD on IVF and Egg Donation: Model Forms and Guidelines, and a guidebook, “Questions and Answers about Infertility and Its Treatment.”
Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science Project on Human Germ-Line Interventions, Working Group on Scientific Freedom & Responsibility Issues, 1998-2000.
Core member, Project on Prenatal Testing for Genetic Disability, The Hastings Center. Funded by the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project (ELSI), division of the National Institutes of Health, 1996-98.
Member, Project on Reproductive Choice and Control of Fertility, The Centre for Social Ethics and Policy,University of Manchester, England. Funded by the European Commission, 1996-99.
Member, National Study Group for the Ethics, Genetics, and Alzheimer's Disease project, Center for Biomedical Ethics, School of Medicine, CaseWestern ReserveUniversity, Cleveland, Ohio. Funded by ELSI, 1995-1996.
Member, Working Group on The Ethics of Long-Term Contraception, The Hastings Center, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., December 1992-September 1993.
Member, HastingsCenter Maternal-Fetal Project, May 1989-January 1991.
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Selected Media Appearances (1997-present):
Interviewed in Lake of Fire, a Tony Kaye documentary about abortion, 2008.
Interviewed by Soledad O’Brien about 62-year-old California woman who gave birth, CNN Morning, Feb. 21, 2006.
Appeared in Video: “Cloning: What’s Stopping Us?” Ivanhoe BroadcastNews, October 2004.
Interviewed for cover story in Newsweek, “Should a Fetus Have Rights?” June 9, 2003, p. 47. Companion interview aired on Newsweek On Air, WNYC, June 1, 2003.
Appeared on CBS National News, segment on New Jersey Supreme Court decision on frozen embryos, August 14, 2001.
Appeared on CBS National News, segment on embryo mix-up in fertility clinic, March 30, 1999.
Appeared on Fox News, The Crier Report, segment on physician-assisted suicide in Oregon, Feb. 22,1999.
Appeared on Court TV, Cochran & Grace, segment on cloning, March 12, 1997
Appeared on NHK, Japanese Public Television, segment on cloning, March 12, 1997.
Appeared on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, PBS, as panelist discussing the ethics of human cloning, March 5, 1997.
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Selected Professional Activities (2001-present):
Member, APA Committee on Philosophy and Medicine, July 1, 2009-June 30, 2012. Selected Nov. 14, 2008.
Presenter, Ethics cases, Council of Physicians and Scientists (COPS) Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, May 17, 2008.
Gave welcoming remarks and chaired a session at the Summer Conference of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities: Bioethics and Politics: The Future of Bioethics in a Divided Democracy, July 13-14, 2006.
“Informed Consent,” delivered as part of the University of North Florida ethics committee education course for healthcare professionals in Jacksonville, Florida. Feb. 9, 2006.
Member, Task Force on the Future of the HastingsCenter, 2006.
Peer reviewer for the report from the Working Party on Critical Care Decisions in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine: Ethical Issues, Nuffield Council on Bioethics, May 2006.
External reviewer of the Undergraduate Bioethics Program at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Mar. 21-23, 2005.
External reviewer of the Philosophy Department at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Feb. 20-22, 2005.
Invited member of the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Advisory Committee to the Program Committee, 2005-2006.
Presenter, Workshop “Bioethics Forum: The Link Between Reproductive Rights and the Stem Cell Debate.” Family Planning Advocates of New YorkState, 27th Annual Conference, January 26, 2004.
Reviewed book manuscript for Johns Hopkins University Press, January 2004.
Reviewed manuscripts for numerous journals.
Member, Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, January 2003-2007; 2008-. This involves writing, revising, and commenting on ethics committee statements.
Member, American Philosophical Association Book Prize Committee, 2002-03.
Member, Publications Task Force, HastingsCenter, March 2002.
Consultant, evaluation of Humans and Nature project, HastingsCenter, 2002.
Participant and commentator, Public Health and Ethical Theory Conference, Centre for Bioethics and Health Law, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, May 23-4, 2002.
Guest lecturer, First-year Fellows in NIH Clinical Bioethics, “Alternative Reproduction,” March 20, 2002.
Area editor, Fertility and Reproduction, 3rd edition Encyclopedia of Bioethics.
Moderator, Panel Discussion, Albany Law Review Annual Symposium, “Manufactured Humanity: The Ethics and Legality of Stem Cell Research, Bioengineering and Human Cloning,” AlbanyLawSchool, October 25, 2001.
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RESEARCH: PUBLISHED/ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION
Books:
Life Before Birth: The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses. OxfordUniversity Press, 1992. Paperback edition, 1996. Portions reprinted in John Arras and Bonnie Steinbock, eds., Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, 4th edition (Mayfield Publishing Company, 1995): 329-343; in Charles Cozic & Jonathan Petrikin, eds., The Abortion Controversy (Greenhaven Press, 1995): 228-234; in Carol Levine, ed., Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical
Issues, 7th edition (Dushkin Publishing Group, Inc., 1997; in Wanda Teays and Laura Purdy, eds., Bioethics, Justice & Health Care (Wadsworth, 2001): 518-522; in Michael H Shapiro, Rebecca S. Dresser, Roy G. Spece, Jr., and Ellen Wright Clayton, eds.,Bioethics and Law: Cases, Materials and Problems (West Publishing Company, 2002).
Edited Collections:
Killing and Letting Die, edited and with an introduction. Prentice-Hall, 1980. 2nd edition, co-edited with Alastair Norcross. FordhamUniversity Press, 1994.
Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, 4th edition, co-edited with John Arras. Mayfield Publishing Company, 1995. Fifth edition, 1998. 6th edition, co-edited with John Arras and Alex John London. McGraw-Hill, 2002. 7th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2008.
New Ethics for the Public's Health, co-edited with Dan Beauchamp. OxfordUniversity Press, 1999.
Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Reproduction, edited and with an introduction. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, May 2002.
Public Health Ethics: Theory, Policy, and Practice, co-edited with Ron Bayer, Lawrence Gostin, and Bruce Jennings. OxfordUniversity Press, 2006.
Oxford Handbook of Bioethics, edited and with an introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.Paperback edition, 2009.
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Articles in Refereed Journals:
“Prenatal Genetic Testing: Cui Bono?”Reproductive Biomedicine Online,15 Suppl 2(December 2007): 38-42. Reprinted in APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine. Fall 2007, Vol. 07, no. 1.
“The Morality of Killing Human Embryos,” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics34:1 (Spring 2006): 26-34.
“The Case for Physician-Assisted Suicide: Not (Yet) Proven,”Journal of Medical Ethics 31, no. 4 (April 2005): 235-241.
“Defining Parenthood,” International Journal of Children's Rights 13: 287-310 (2005). Reprinted in Michael Freeman, ed., Children’s Health and Children’s Rights
(Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nihjoff Publishers, 2006):311-334.
“Sex Selection: Not Obviously Wrong,” HastingsCenter Report 32, no. 1(2002): 23-28.
“What Does ‘Respect for Embryos’ Mean in the Context of Stem Cell Research?” Women’s Health Issues, Vol. 10, no. 3 (May/June 2000): 127-130. Reprinted in Thomas Mappes and David DeGrazia, eds., Biomedical Ethics, 6th edition (McGraw-Hill, 2006): 498-501.
“The NBAC Report on Cloning Human Beings: What It Did – and Did Not – Do,”Jurimetrics 38 (Fall 1997): 39-46.
“Death with Dignity or Unlawful Killing: The Ethical and Legal Debate Over Physician- Assisted Death,”co-authored with David A. Pratt. Criminal Law Bulletin (May- June 1997): 226-261.
“The Clinical Introduction of Genetic Testing for Alzheimer Disease: An Ethical Perspective.”Co-authored with Stephen L. Post and 18 other authors. JAMA 277: 10 (March 12, 1997): 832-836.
"The Ethical Implications of Assisted Reproductive Technologies," Assisted Reproduction Reviews 7:1 (1997): 39-40.
"Liberty, Responsibility, and the Common Good," HastingsCenter Report 26:6 (November-December 1996): 45- 47.
"Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technologies: An Ethical Framework," Women’s Health Issues 6:3 (May/June 1996), pp. 1-8.
"A Philosopher Looks at Assisted Reproduction,"Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics 12:8 (1995): 543-551.
"Megan's Law: A Policy Perspective," Criminal Justice Ethics 14:2 (1995): 4-9. Reprinted in M. Ethan Katsh,Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Legal Issues, 8th edition (Dushkin, McGraw-Hill,1998); reprinted in Steven Cooper, ed., Stand! Crime and Criminology (CourseWise Publishing, Inc.,1999).
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Articles in Refereed Journals (cont.):
"Sperm as Property," Stanford Law & Policy Review 6:2 (1995): 57-71.
"Coercion and Long-term Contraceptives." Special Supplement, HastingsCenter Report 25, no. 1 (January-February 1995): S19-S22. Reprinted in Wanda Teays
and Laura Purdy, eds., Bioethics, Justice, and Health Care(Wadsworth, 2001): 456-462
“Maternal-Fetal Conflict and In Utero Fetal Therapy,"Albany Law Review 57:3 (1994): 781-793. Reprinted in Claude Sureau and Françoise Shenfield (eds.), Ethical Aspects of Human Reproduction, (Paris: John Libbey Eurotext, 1995), Session I, "Cultural, ethical and legal issues of fetal-parental conflict": 65-80.
"The Relevance of Illegality," HastingsCenter Report, Vol. 22, No. 1 (January/February 1992): 19-22.
"When Is Birth Unfair to the Child?" co-authored with Ron McClamrock,Hastings Center Report24, No. 6,(November-December 1994): 15-21. Reprinted in John Arras and Bonnie Steinbock, eds., Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, 4th and 5th editions (Mayfield Publishing Company, 1995, 1998); reprinted in Judith Areen, Steven Goldberg, Lawrence O. Gostin, and Patricia A. King, eds.,Law, Science and Medicine (Foundation Press,1996); reprinted in Florencia Luna and Arleen Salles, eds.,Bioética (Editorial Sudamericana, 1998); reprinted in Laurence D. Houlgate, ed.,Morals, Marriage and Parenthood: An Introduction to Family Ethics(Wadsworth, 1998); reprinted in Michael D. Freeman, ed., Children, Medicine and the Law (Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004).
"Recovery from Persistent Vegetative State? The Case of Carrie Coons," Hastings Center Report, Vol. 19, No. 4 (July/August 1989): 14-15.
"Preterm Labor and Prenatal Harm," Case Study Commentary, HastingsCenter Report, Vol. 19, No. 2 (March/April 1989): 32-33. Reprinted in Bette-Jane Crigger, ed., Cases in Bioethics, 3rd edition (St. Martin’s Press, 1998).
edition; Feinberg and Coleman, 6th edition (Wadsworth, 1995, 2000); reprinted in Thomas A. Mappes and David DeGrazia, eds., Biomedical Ethics, 4th,5th, and 6th editions, (McGraw-Hill, 1996, 2000, 2005): 561-565.
"Prenatal Wrongful Death," Bioethics, Vol. 1, No. 4 (October 1987): 301-320. Reprinted in Michael D. Freeman, ed., Children, Medicine and the Law (Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004).
"The Logical Case for 'Wrongful Life'," HastingsCenter Report, (April 1986): 15-20.
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Articles in Refereed Journals (cont.):
"Surrogate Motherhood as Prenatal Adoption," Law, Medicine, & Health Care, Vol. 16: 1-2 (Spring/Summer 1988): 44-50. Reprinted in John Arras and Nancy Rhoden, eds., Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, 3rd edition (Mayfield Publishing Company, 1989); reprinted in Larry Gostin, ed., Surrogate Motherhood: Politics and Privacy (Indiana University Press, 1990); reprinted in Thomas A. Mappes and Jane S. Zembaty, eds., Social Ethics, 4th edition (McGraw-Hill, 1991); reprinted in Thomas A. Mappes and Jane S. Zembaty, eds., Biomedical Ethics, 3rd edition (McGraw-Hill, 1991), reprinted in Ronald Munson, ed., Intervention andReflection: Basic Issues in Medical Ethics, 4th edition (Wadsworth, 1992); reprinted in John Arthur, ed., Moralityand Moral Controversies, 3rd edition (Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1993; reprinted in John Arras and Bonnie Steinbock, Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, 4th, 5th edition (Mayfield Publishing Company, 1995, 1998); reprinted in Joel Feinberg and Hyman Gross, eds., Philosophy of Law 5th "Drunk Driving," Philosophy & Public Affairs (Summer 1985), pp. 278-295. Reprinted in Louis P. Pojman, ed.,The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature(OxfordUniversity Press, 2000): 806-818.
"Baby Jane Doe in the Courts," HastingsCenter Report (February 1984): 13-19. Reprinted in William J. Kennedy, ed., Writing in the Professions (1987).
"The Removal of Mr. Herbert's Feeding Tube," HastingsCenter Report (October 1983): 13-16. Reprinted in Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., et. al, eds., Bioethics Reporter: Ethical and Legal Issues in Medicine, Health Care Administration and Human Experimentation, University Publications of America; RobertPaul Wolff, ed., About Philosophy, 3rd edition,(Prentice-Hall, 1986).
"Moral Reasons and Relativism," Journal of Value Inquiry, 15(1981): 157-168.
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Articles in Refereed Journals (cont.):
"The Intentional Termination of Life," Ethics in Science and Medicine, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1979): 59-64; reprinted in John Arras and Robert Hunt, eds., Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, 2nd edition,(Mayfield Publishing Company, 1983): 223-228; Samuel Gorovitz, ed., Moral Problems inMedicine, 2nd edition,(Prentice-Hall, 1983); James P. Sterba, ed., Morality in Practice, (Wadsworth, 1983); Thomas Donaldson, ed., Issues in Moral Philosophy (McGraw-Hill, 1986); John Arras and Nancy Rhoden, Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine,3rd edition (Mayfield Publishing Company, 1989); Daniel Bonevac, ed., Today’s Moral Issues: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives (Mayfield, 1992): 334-349; Bonnie Steinbock and Alastair Norcross, Killing and Letting Die , 2nd edition (Fordham University Press, 1994): 120- 130; Jeffrey R. Di Leo, ed., Morality Matters (McGraw- Hill,2002): 202-206; Larry May, Shari Collins- Chobanian, and Kai Wong, eds., Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th editions (Pearson Prentice-Hall, 1997, 2001, 2005): pp. 594-601; Margaret P. Battin, Leslie Francis, and Bruce M. Landesman, eds., Death, Dying and the Ending of Life(Ashgate 2007); Jeffrey DiLeo, ed., From Socrates to Cinema: An Introduction to Philosophy (McGraw-Hill 2006):1024-1028.
"Speciesism and the Idea of Equality," Philosophy, 53 (April 1978): 249-58. Reprinted in Jeffrey Olen & Vincent Barry, eds., Applying Ethics,7th edition (Wadsworth, 2002); Barbara MacKinnon, ed.,Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues, 3rd edition (Wadsworth, 2001); James E. White, ed., Contemporary Moral Problems, 5th edition (West Publishing Company, 1994); John Arthur, ed.,Morality and Moral Controversies, 4th edition (Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1995); Rutgers University - Dept. of Philosophy,Current Moral & Social Issues (Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company,1998; Contemporary Moral Issues: Diversity and Consensus, 2nd edition (Prentice Hall, 1999);POWERWEB: Ethics (McGraw- Hill/Dushkin, 2003),
Articles in Edited Collections:
“Wrongful Life and Procreative Decisions,”in Melinda A. Roberts and David T. Wasserman, eds.,Harming Future Persons:Ethics, Genetics andthe Nonidentity Problem (forthcoming Springer October2009).
“Moral Status, Moral Value, and Human Embryos: Implications for Stem Cell Research,” in Bonnie Steinbock, ed.,Oxford Handbook of Bioethics(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007): 416-440.
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Articles in Edited Collections (cont.):
“Ethical differences between Inheritable Genetic Modification and Embryo Selection,” in Audrey R. Chapman and Mark S. Frankel, eds., Designing Our Descendants: The Promise and Perils of Genetic Modifications (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003): 179-187.
“Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis and Embryo Selection,” in Justine Burley and John Harris, eds., A Companion to Genethics (Blackwell Publishers, 2002): 175-190.
“Respect for Human Embryos,” in Paul Lauritzen, ed., Cloning and the Future of Human Embryo Research (OxfordUniversity Press, 2001): 21-33.
“Disability, Prenatal Testing, and Selective Abortion,” in Erik Parens and Adrienne Asch, eds., Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights (Washington, D.C.: GeorgetownUniversity Press, 2000): 108-123.
“The Ethics of Human Cloning,” in Michael Freeman and Andrew Lewis, eds., Law and Medicine, Current Legal Issues 2000, Vol. 3(OxfordUniversity Press, 2000): 177-188.
“Human Cloning: Sorting through the Ethical Issues,” in Barbara Mackinnon, ed., Human Cloning: Science, Ethics, and Policy (University of Illinois Press, 2000): 68-84.
"Why Most Abortions are not Wrong," in Rem B. Edwards and Edward Bittar, eds., Bioethics for Medical Education, Vol 5(JAI Press, 1999): 245-267.
"Sperm as Property," in John Harris & Søren Holm, eds.,The Future of Human Reproduction (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998): 150-161.
"Mother-Fetus Conflict," in Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer, eds., A Companion to Bioethics (Blackwell Publishers, 1998): 135-146. Updated version in second edition forthcoming.
"Prenatal Genetic Testing for Alzheimer Disease," in Stephen G. Post and Peter J. Whitehouse, eds., Genetic Testing for Alzheimer Disease: Ethical and Clinical Issues(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998): 140-151.
"The Concept of Coercion and Long-term Contraceptives,”in Bruce Jennings and Ellen Moskowitz, eds.,Coerced Contraception? Moral and Policy Challenges of Long- Acting Birth Control (Georgetown University Press, 1996): 53-78. Reprinted in Wanda Teays and Laura M. Purdy, eds.,Bioethics, Justice, and Health Care (Wadsworth, 2001).