Rosemarie Tong

Biographical Information

Rosemarie Tong is Distinguished Professor of Health Care Ethics at the University of North Carolina. She taught at Williams College from 1978 to 1988 and was Olmstead Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Lafayette College in 1993. She was selected as the 1986 National Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Until 1998 she was the Thatcher Professor in Philosophy and Medical Humanities at Davidson College. Tong has been a consultant to the ACLS, the Fulbright Foundation, the Hastings Center, the North Carolina Medical Society, the National Advisory Board on Ethics and Reproduction, and various curricular programs involving medical humanities bioethics and women's studies. She has received grants from the Sloan, Ford, and Fullerton Foundations as well as the NEH. In addition, Tong is on the Ethics Committees of Presbyterian Hospital and Cabarrus Hospital and is a board member of the Bioethics Resource Group. She is the series editor of the Point/Counterpoint series and the New Feminist Perspecitves series from Rowman and Littlefield Press.

Bibliography

BOOKS

Globalizing Feminist Bioethics. Co-authored with Aida Santos and Gwen Anderson. (in progress).

Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction. Westview Press, 1998. [Editions in Korean, Polish, and Swedish.]

Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Westview Press, 1996.

Unity in Diversity. (Monograph, audio recorded) Knowledge Products, 1995.

Controlling Our Reproductive Destiny: A Technological and Philosohical Perspective. (co-authored with Larry Kaplan). MIT Press, 1994.

Feminine and Feminist Ethics. Wadsworth, 1993.

Feminist Thought: A Comprehensive Introduction. Westview Press, 1989.

Ethics in Policy Analysis. Prentice-Hall, 1985.

Women, Sex and the Law. Rowman and Allenheld, 1987.

EDITED BOOKS

Feminist Philosophy: Essential Readings in Theory, Reinterpretation, and Application. (co-edited with nancy Tuana) Westview, 1994.

Feminist Philosophies: Problems, Theories, and Applications. (co-edited with James Sterba and Janet Kourany). Prentice-Hall, 1991.

ARTICLES

"A Feminist Interpretation of Engelhardt's Bioethics: More a Moral Friend Than a Moral Stanger." Reason Papers (Fall 1997).

"Feminist Perspectives on Empathy as an Epistemic Skill and Caring as a Moral Virtue." Jounal of Medical Humanities 18 (Sum 1997): 153-168.

"The Promises and Perils of Clinical Pragmatism." Kennedy Institute of Ethics 7 (Mar 1997): 147-152.

"Feminist Ethics," in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

"Feminist Ethics," in Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics. (Academic Press, 1997): F-2-1 to F-2-9.

"On Not Being Indifferent." Regional Review (Wint 1997): 1-2.

"An Introduction to Feminist Approaches to Bioethics: Parting Reflections." Journal of Clinical Ethics 7 (Wint 1996): .

"Feminist Pedagogy: A Voice of One's Own," in Inspiring Teaching. Ed. John K. Roth (Anker Publishing Co., 1996): 176-187.

"The Feminist Perspective on Gamete Donation and Reception," in New Ways of Making Babies: The Case of Egg Donation. Ed. Cynthia Cohen. (Indiana Univ. Press, 1996).

"Working Within Contradiction: The Possibility of Feminist Cosmetic Surgery." (co-authored with Anna Kirkland) Journal of Clinical Ethics 7 (Sum 1996): 151-159.

"An Introduction to Feminist Approaches to Bioethics: A Continuation." Journal of Clinical Ethics 7 (Sum 1996): 150.

"An Introduction to Feminist Approaches to Bioethics: Unity in Diversity." Journal of Clinical Ethics 7 (Spr 1996): 13-19.

"Feminist Bioethics: Towards Developing a 'Feminist' Answer to the Gestational Motherhood Question," in Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal. Ed. Margaret Little. (1996), pp. 37-52.

"Maternal-Fetal Conflict: The Misguided Case for Punishing Cocaine-using Pregnant and/or Postpartum Women," in Punishment: Social Control and Coercion. Ed. Christine Sistare. (Peter Land, 1996).

"Feminine and Feminist Approaches to Bioethics," in Feminist Bioethics: Beyond Reproduction. Ed. Susan Wolf. (Oxford Univ. Press, 1996), pp. 67-94.

"Procreative Liberty: Beyond Liberal, Radical, and Cultural Feminist Assessments," in In the Company of Others: Perspectives on Community, Family, and Culture. Ed. Nancy Snow. (Rowman and Littlefield, 1995).

"Feminist Ethics," in Blackwell Encyclopedia Dictionary of Business Ethics. Ed. Edward Freeman and Patricia Werhane. (Blackwell Business, 1995).

"Feminine and Feminist Ethics," in Introduction to Medical Ethics and Hospital Ethics Committees. (Florida Bioethics Network, 1995).

"Feminist Jurisprudence." (co-authored with Susan Peppers) APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy and Philosophy of Law (Spr 1995): 66-69.

"Towards a Just, Courageous, and Honest Resolution of the Futility Debate." The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (1995): 165-189.

"Feminist Perspectives and Gestational Motherhood: The Need for a Unified Legal Focus," in Reproduction, Ethics, and the Law: Feminist Perspectives. Ed. Joan Callahan. (Indiana Univ. Press, 1995), pp. 55-79.

"What's Distinctive About Feminist Bioethics?" APA Newsletters: Philosophy and Medicine 94 (Fall 1994): 122-124.

"Learning to Teach." (co-authored with Peter C. Beidler) Journal on Excellence in College Teaching 5 (Fall 1994): 107-26.

"Reproductive Technology: Surrogacy," in Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Ed. Warren Reich. (The Council for Religion in Independent Schools Press, 1993).

"An Exercise in Futility." North Carolina Medical Journal 54 (Aug 1993): 1-6.

"Compassion: The Liberal Virtue," in Problems and Conflicts Between Law and Morality: A Free Society. (Baylor University Press, 1993).

"Feminist Philosophy," in Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. (1993).

"Harriet Taylor," in Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. (1993).

"Is There a Right to Health Care?" Charlotte Observer (May 3, 1993): 4H.

"A 'Good' Death Reconsidered." TheWorld and I: A Washington Times Publication (Mar 1993): 409-413.

"Euthanasia: The Possibility of Dying a 'Good' Death." TheWorld and I: A Washington Times Publication (Mar 1993): 369-383.

"Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Resolving Gestational Conflict." Journal of Theoretical Medicine 13 (1992): 329-335.

"The Personhood Debate: Towards a Reconciliation." The World and I: A Washington Times Publication 7 (May 1992): 494-516.

"An Annotated and Comprehensive Bibliography for Feminist Thought." Anima: The Journal for Human Experience (Spr 1992): 30-77.

"Rationing Health Care." Healthcare 1 (Feb 1992): 13, 16.

"Love in the Classroom." (co-authored with Peter Beidler) Journal of Excellence in College Teaching 2 (Fall 1991): 53-70.

"The Epistemology and Ethics of Consensus: Uses and Abuses of 'Ethical' Expertise." Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 16 (1991): 409-426.

"The Ethics of Medical Licensure." Federation of State Medical Boards Bulletin (June 1991): 174-183.

"Feminist Justice: A Study in Difference." Journal of Social Philosophy 22 (Win 1991): 81-91.

"The Overdue Death of a Feminist Chameleon: Taking a Stand on Surrogacy Arrangements." Journal of Social Philosophy 21 (Fall-Win 1990): 41-55.

"Till Death Do Us Part," in Everyday Ethics: Resolving Dilemmas in Nursing Home Life. Ed. R. Kane and A. Caplan. (Springer, 1989), pp. 100-108.

"Ethics for Policy Writers: Focus on P.L." Frank Graham Porter Policy Studies. (Univeristy of North Carolina Press, 1989), pp. 399-457.

"Pleaures and Perils of Teaching." VCU Teaching Journal (Fall 1988).

"The Legacy of Baby M." Women's Review of Books 6 (Dec 1988): 17-18.

"The Taming of the Technological Imperative: The Constitution in the Twenty-First Century," in Constitutionalism: The Philosophical Dimension. Ed. Alan S. Rosenbaum. (Greenwood Press, 1988), pp. 222-238.

"Three Incomparable Perspectives on Comparable Worth," in Ethical Theory and Business. Ed. Tom L. Beauchamp and Norman E. Bowie. (Prentice-Hall, 1988).

"Feminist Philosophy: Standpoints and Differences," in Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy (American Philosophical Association, April 1988), pp. 9-11.

"The Ethics of Good Citizenship," in Foundations of American Citizenship: New Directions for Education. (Council of Chief State School Officers, 1988), pp. 71-76.

"Women, Pornography, and the Law." Academe (Sept-oct 1987): 14-28.

"Toward an Ethics for Policy Experts," in Professional Ideals. Ed. Albert Flores. (Wadsworth, 1987), pp. 121-134.

"Ethics and the Policy Analyst," in Confronting Values in Policy Analysis. Ed. Frank Fischer and John Forester. (Sage Publications, 1986), pp. 192-211.

"The Minneapolis Ordinance and the FACT Brief." Women's Review of Books (May 1, 1986): 7-9.

"Liberty, Equality -- Community?" Women's Review of Books (Jan 1986):

"Sexual Harassment," in Women and Values: Readings in Recent Feminist Philosophy. Ed. Marilyn Pearsall. (Wadsworth, 1985), pp. 148-166.

"The Chinese Legal Reform and Its Limitations." (co-authored with Paul K. K. Tong) Journal of Chinese Studies 1 (Summ 1984).

"Towards a More Responsive and Responsible Science -- Advising Policy." Berkshire Review (1983): 14-27.

"Incapacitation, Dangerousness, and the Scope of the Criminal Law," in Ethics, Public Policy, and Criminal Justice. Ed. Norman Bowie and Fred Elliston. (1982), pp. 289-304.

"Feminism, Pornography and Censorship." Journal of Social Theory and Practice (Sum 1982): 1-17.

"Comment: Structures of Deception." Berkshire Review (1979).

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