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- Lisa Eckenwiler was a senior fellow at le Centre de Recherche en Ethique a Universite de Montreal in Summer 2008. While she is there, Prof. worked on her book, Caregiving in the Context of Globalization: Toward Justice for All.
Current Projects
- Justice and Caregiving in the Context of Globalization: Toward Justice for All (Johns Hopkins University Press), forthcoming
- "Reviewing the Social Implications of Research"
- "Hopes for Helsinki: Re-thinking 'Vulnerability'"
Publications and Presentations
- Books
- Peer Reviewed Articles
- Other Publications
- Selected Presentations at Professional Meetings
- Invited Presentations
- Other Scholarly Presentations
BOOKS
The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape, Felicia Cohn, co-editor
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)
with Françoise Baylis and Louise Kunicki, eds. Institutional Policy in Paediatric Practice: Documenting Canadian Experience (Toronto: The Hospital for Sick Children Department of Bioethics, 1994)
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES
Lisa Eckenwiler, Carolyn Ells, Dafna Feinholz, and Toby Schonfeld, "Hopes
for Helsinki: Re-thinking Vulnerability," Journal of Medical Ethics
vol. 34, no. 10 (October 2008): 765-766
with Carolyn Ells, Dafna Feinholz, and Toby Schonfeld, "Helsinki through a Feminist Lens," International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 161-177
with Jonathan D. Moreno, "Ethical Principles in Clinical Trials," in Randomized Clinical Trials: Methods and Analyses for the Behavioral Clinical Sciences, eds. Peter G. Kaufmann, Karina W. Davidson, and Helena Chmura Kraemer, forthcoming
"An Ecological Framework for Caregiving (letter)," American Journal of Public Health, vol. 97, no. 11 (November 2007)
“When I’m 64 (and Then Some), Who Will Care? Aging in America,” Bioethics Forum (6 April 2006) http://www.bioethicsforum.org/20060406leckenwiler.asp
“A Missed Opportunity: The President’s Council on Bioethics Report on Ethical Caregiving,” American Journal of Bioethics, vol. 6, no. 2 (March/April 2006): W20-23
"The Ethical Underpinnings of Emergency Preparedness and Biodefense Policy," Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, vol. 14, no. 3 (Summer 2005): 306-315
with Carol Levine, Ruth Faden, Christine Grady, Dale Hammerschmidt, and Jeremy Sugarman, "The Limitations of ‘Vulnerability’ for the Protection of Human Research Participants," American Journal of Bioethics vol. 4, no. 3 (Summer 2004): 44-49
with Ezekiel Emanuel, Anne Wood, Alan Fleischman, Angela Bowen, Carol Levine, Ken Getz, Ruth Faden, Carianne Tucker and Jeremy Sugarman, "Assessing Current Efforts in the Oversight of Clinical Research," Annals of Internal Medicine vol. 141, no. 4 (17 August 2004): 282-291
“Why Not Retribution: The Particular Imagination and Justice for Pregnant Drug Users," Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, vol. 21, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 89-99
"Ethical Concerns in Emergency Preparedness," American Medical Association Virtual Mentor vol. 6, no. 5 (May 2004) http://www.ama.assn.org/ama/pub/category/ print/12435.html
with Carol Levine, Ruth Faden, Christine Grady, Dale Hammerschmidt, and Jeremy Sugarman, "’Special Scrutiny’: A Targeted Form of Protocol Review for the Protection of Human Research Participants,” Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 140, no. 3 (February 3, 2004): 220-223
with Jeremy Sugarman and Dale Hammerschmidt, "Re-envisioning Research Ethics: The Consortium to Examine Clinical Research," Hematology and Oncology News and Issues vol. 2, no. 5 (May 2003): 23-25
with Jeremy Sugarman and Ezekiel Emanuel, "Research Oversight through New Lenses: The Consortium to Examine Clinical Research," IRB: A Review of Human Subjects Research vol. 25, no. 1 (January-February 2003): 9-10
"Emergency Health Workers & the Ethics of Crisis," In the Wake of Terror: Medicine & Morality in a Time of Crisis, ed. Jonathan D. Moreno (MIT Press, 2003): 111-132
"Genetics Research and Third Party Interests," Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions vol. 21, no. 3 (September 2001): 278-284
"Moral Reasoning and the Review of Research Involving Human Subjects," Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal vol. 11, no. 1 (March 2001): 37-69
"Realizing Justice in Health Research for Women: Democratizing Decision Making," in Globalizing Feminist Bioethics: Cross Cultural Perspectives (Westview Press, 2000): 266-281
"Justice and Access to Therapies for AIDS," AIDS and Public Policy Journal vol. 14, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 20-25
"Pursuing Reform in Clinical Research: Lessons from Women's Experience," Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics vol. 27, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 158-170
"Attention to Difference and Women's Consent to Research," IRB: A Review of Human Subjects Research vol. 20, no. 6 (November-December 1998): 6-11
"Women and Communities in Clinical Research: Questioning the Influence
of Communitarian Ideals," in Studies in Social and Political Theory:
Technology, Morality and Society, ed. Yeager Hudson (Lewiston, NY: Edwin
Mellen Press, 1998): 171-201
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Caring About Long Term Care: An Ethical Framework for Caregiving (Center
for American Progress, Washington, D.C., July 2007)
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
“Health Worker Migration and Transnational Justice,” Manchester
Workshop in Political Theory and Public Health, Manchester, United Kingdom,
September 10-12, 2008
“Bioethics and Suicide Bombing,” International Association of Bioethics, Rijeka, Croatia, September 5-8, 2008
“The FAB Voice in Research Ethics: Revising the Declaration of Helsinki,” (Plenary Session) International Network of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Rijeka, Croatia, September 3-5, 2008
“Care for the Caregivers?: Transnational Justice and Undocumented Non-Citizen Care Workers,” International Network of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Rijeka, Croatia, September 3-5, 2008
"Professor Smith Goes to Washington: How Bioethicists Can Contribute to Policy," American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Washington, D.C., October 18-21, 2007
"Caregiving in the Context of Globalization: Toward Justice for All," American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Washington, D.C., October 18-21, 2007
"Defining Values for Bioethics and Bioethicists: Continuing the Dialogue," American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Washington, D.C., October 18-21, 2007
"Ecological Thinking and Global Health Inequalities," Setting and Ethical Agenda for Health Promotion, Ghent, Belgium, September 18-20, 2007
"Transnational Justice and Caregiving," Canadian Bioethics Society, Toronto, Canada, May 30-June 3, 2007
“What Does Justice Require?: Public Health and Caregiving in the Context of Globalization,” American Public Health Association, Boston, Massachusetts, November 4-8, 2006
with Felicia Cohn, Judith Andre, Nancy M.P. King, and Laurie Zoloth, “Hearing and Heeding the Challenging Voices: Defining Values for Bioethics,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Denver, Colorado, October 23-26, 2006
“Justice and Caregiving in the Context of Globalization,” International Association of Bioethics, Beijing, China, August 6-9, 2006
“Ecological Epistemology and Transnational Justice for Caregivers,” International Network of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Beijing, China, August 4-6, 2006
“Justice and Caregiving in the Context of Globalization,” Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, Dublin, Ireland, June 28-July 1, 2006
“Caregiving in the Context of Globalization: The Need for an Ecological Approach,” Global Health Care Justice: A National Symposium, Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, June 22-25, 2006
“The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Albany, New York, April 7-8, 2005
"Biodefense Policy and Ethics in Science, Medicine and Public Health," Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, Chicago, Illinois, September 6, 2004
"Social Moral Epistemology and Biodefense," Duke-UNC Bioethics Forum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March 11, 2004
with Alan Fleischman, Carol Levine, and Jeremy Sugarman, “Research Oversight through New Lenses: The Consortium to Examine Clinical Research Ethics," American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Montreal, Canada, October 22-26, 2003
with Felicia Cohn, Francoise Baylis, Elisa Gordon, and Ashby Sharpe, "The Public Face of Bioethics: Watchdog or Show Dog?" American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Baltimore, Maryland, October 24-27, 2002
"Law and Public Policy for Pregnant Addicts: Equity and Particularity in Reasoning," Society for Women in Philosophy, Eastern Division, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 5-7, 2002
"Ethics and Prenatal Diagnosis for Sex Selection," The End of Natural Motherhood? The Artificial Womb and Other Reproductive Technologies, Oklahoma State University Ethics Center, Department of Philosophy, Tulsa, Oklahoma, February 22-23, 2002
"Attention to Particularity and Moral Reasoning about Vulnerable Persons," American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Philosophy Interest Group, Nashville, Tennessee, October 25-28, 2001
"Mercy and Justice for Pregnant Addicts: Two Arguments against Retribution" Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, Charleston, South Carolina, October 18-21, 2001
"Conceptions of Moral Reasoning in Research Review and the Ideals of Respect for Persons and Social Equality: Historical Reflections and Recommendations for Reform in the System for Participant Protection," International Association of Bioethics, Network for Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Annual Meeting, London, England September 17-23, 2000
"Moral Reasoning and the Review of Clinical Research," Bioethics
in the 21st Century, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, April 6-8, 2000
"Exploring Conceptions of Democracy for Health Research," Association
for Politics in the Life Sciences, Atlanta, Georgia, September 3-6, 1999
"Promoting Justice in Health Care for African-American Women: Storytelling, the 'Moral Point of View', and Ideals of Democracy, "Women in Africa and the African Diaspora, Indianapolis, Indiana, October 23-27, 1998 (co-presenter with Lisa Boyd, Ph.D.(c), Department of English, University of Georgia)
"Justice in Research with Humans: Lessons from the Debates on Women's Participation," Association for Politics in the Life Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts, September 3-6, 1998
"Women and the Ethics of Clinical Research: Broadening Conceptions
of
Justice," Meeting of Society of Health and Human Values, Society for
Bioethics Consultation, American Association of Bioethics, Baltimore, Maryland,
November 5-9, 1997
"The Just Allocation of Combination Therapy for Persons Living with AIDS," Society of Health and Human Values, Society for Bioethics Consultation, American Association of Bioethics, Baltimore, Maryland, November 5-9, 1997
"Reframing Conceptions of Social Justice in Clinical Research for Women: Beyond the Paradigm of Distribution," International Association of Bioethics, Conference on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, San Francisco, California, November 24-25, 1996
"Women and Communities in Clinical Research: Questioning the Influence of Communitarian Ideals," International Social Philosophy Conference, Saint Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin, August 15-18, 1996
"The Ethics of Clinical Research: Women and Broadened Conceptions of Justice," Politics of Caring III, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, November 10-12, 1995
"Cultural Pluralism and Intellectual Virtue in Health Care Ethics: Insights from Feminist Epistemologies," Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioethics Consultation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 7-9, 1994
"Cooperation and Conversation: Reconsidering Grice," Southern
Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Memphis, Tennessee, April 16, 1992
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Author Meets Critics, Session on The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral
Landscape, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, San Antonio,
Texas, February 21-24, 2008, forthcoming
"Caring about Long Term Care: Ethical Principles for Caregiving," Keynote address, National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, Arlington, Virginia, October 21, 2007
“A History of Research Ethics,” Summer Behavioral Research Institute, Office of Social Science and Behavioral Research, Airlie Center, Warrenton, Virginia, July 22-27, 2007
"New Principles for Research Ethics," The Nazi Doctors' Trial and the Nuremberg Codes 60 Years Later: Implications for Clinical Research and Medical Ethics, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, April 19, 2007
"Caring for the Elderly Worldwide: What More Should Governments, International Lenders, and Transnational Corporations Do?" Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, April 16, 2007
"Health Care and the 2006 Election," American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Denver, Colorado, October 23-26, 2006
"Justice and Caregiving in the Context of Globalization," George Mason University, Fairrfax, Virginia, October 16, 2006
"Justice and Caregiving in the Context of Globalization," Bioethics Seminar Series, Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University, Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Canada, September 29, 2006
“A History of Research Ethics,” Summer Behavioral Research Institute, Office of Social Science and Behavioral Research, Airlie Center, Warrenton, Virginia, July 9-14, 2006
“Mandated Myopia: Re-thinking the Assessment of the Social Implications of Research,” Medical Ethics and Humanities Seminar Series, University of Western Ontario, London Ontario, May 24, 2006
“The Rhetoric of ‘Responsibility’ and Abortion,” Abortion, Morality and Responsibility: A Dialogue, Center for American Progress and Catholics for Free Choice, Washington, D.C., March 3, 2006
“Biodefense, Social Justice, and the Ecological Imagination in Public Health,” Medical Humanities Seminar Series, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, May 25, 2005
"Re-Mapping the Terrain in Clinical Research Ethics," Keynote Address, Research Day, College of Health Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, March 31, 2004
"The Consortium to Examine Clinical Research Ethics: Re-envisioning Research Ethics," Drug Information Association, San Antonio, Texas, June 18, 2003
"Participatory Research and IRBs," Dialogues for Improving Research Ethics in Environmental Health, Collaborative Initiative for Research Ethics in Environmental Health, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, May 30-June 1, 2003
"Emergency Health Workers and the Ethics of Crisis," National Defense and Human Research Protections, Baltimore, Maryland, October 21-23, 2002
“Thinking about the ‘Vulnerable’ in Research," Medical Humanities Forum, University of Maryland-Baltimore, October 17, 2002
"Bioterrorism Preparation and Public Health," Duke University and University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Bioethics Faculty Forum, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, September 12, 2002
"Gender Equity in Research," Discrimination in Medicine, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, April 10, 2002
“Children and Decision Making in Health Research,” Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia, March 20, 2001
"Research Involving Persons with Mental Disorders," Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia, March 21, 2000
"Moral Reasoning and the Care of 'Undesirable' Patients in the Emergency Setting," Emergency Medicine Residents Lecture Series, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia, March 16, 2000
"IRBs and the History of Research Ethics," Biological Honors Society, and the Pre-health Club, Old Dominion University, February 22, 2000
"Beyond Protectionism: Contemporary Issues in Research Ethics," Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia, October 19, 1999
"Research Involving Persons with Mental Disorders that May Affect Decision-making Capacity: Report and Recommendations of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission," Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Sentara/Norfolk General Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia, October 13, 1999
"The Evolution and Moral Grounding of the US System for Subject Protection," Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia, July 20, 1999
"Ethical Implications of Different Approaches to Treatment for Pregnant Addicts," Old Dominion University, Human Reproduction, Norfolk, Virginia, April 15, 1999
"Ethical Issues in Epidemiology," Graduate Program in Public Health, Eastern Virginia School of Medicine/Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, April 5, 1999
"Ethics in Pharmacy Policy and Practice," Annual Meeting, American Pharmaceutical Association, San Antonio, Texas, March 9, 1999
"Research Involving Emergency Patients," Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia, November 17, 1998
"Ethical Issues in Physical Therapy," Graduate Program in Physical Therapy, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, September 29, 1998
"Pregnant Women's Participation in Clinical Research: Ethical Ideals," Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia, June 16, 1998
"Research Ethics in Emergency Medicine," Emergency Medicine Residents Lecture Series, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia, April 30, 1998
"Women and the Ethics of Clinical Research: Broadening Conceptions of Justice," Women's Studies Junior Faculty Lecture, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, February 24, 1998
"Feminist Ethics and the Ideal of Impartiality," Department
of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, March
10, 1997
"Women in Clinical Research: Beyond the Policy Resolutions," Northwestern
University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, January 29, 1997
"Ethical Issues in Reproductive Counseling," Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, Tennessee, November 17, 1994
"Autonomy and Responsibility: HIV Infection in the Context of Pregnancy," Grady Memorial Hospital, Emory University Center for Ethics in Public Policy and the Professions, Atlanta, Georgia, October 18, 1994
"Can There Be Consensus at the Limits of Viability?" Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, Tennessee, July 14, 1994
"Ethical Issues in Neonatology," Pediatrics Grand Rounds, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, Tennessee, March 31, 1994
"Reproductive Counseling: Economics and Contraception" Clinical
Ethics Seminar, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, Tennessee,
January 26, 1994
"Cultural Pluralism in the Clinical Context: Negotiating Trust," Nursing
Grand Rounds, Saint Francis Hospital, Tulsa, Oklahoma, December 29, 1993
"Proxy Decision Making for Incompetent Patients," Clinical Ethics
Seminar, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, Tennessee,
November 3, 1992
OTHER SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
with Jonathan Moreno, “Bioethics and the 2006 Elections: Human Embryonic
Stem Cell Research, and Caregiving and the Aging Population,” Congressional
Briefing, Washington, D.C., March 6, 2006

