Susan Sherwin PhD Philosophy is a University Research Professor, Emerita at Dalhousie University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her principal areas of research and teaching are in feminist theory and health ethics, and in the intersection of these two fields.

She is the author of the first book-length monograph in feminist health ethics, No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics and Health Care (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992). She was coordinator of the Feminist Health Care Ethics Research Network which jointly published The Politics of Women’s Health: Exploring Agency and Autonomy (Temple University Press 1998). She has served on various advisory boards at both national and international levels, including Health Canada’s Advisory Committee on Reproductive and Genetic Technologies, the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research, the Ethics and Equity Committee of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the International Network of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, and the Board of Directors of the International Association of Bioethics.

She has recently been named Distinguished Woman Philosopher of the Year (2004) by the Society for Women in Philosophy (U.S.) and she was the recipient of the Sarah Shorten Award for her contributions to the status of women in Canadian universities (awarded by the Canadian Association of University Teachers, 2000). In spring of 2006, the Canada Council awarded her the highest honor available in her field when it named her the winner of the Killam Prize in Humanities.

Click here to read Professor Sherwin's profile in the Fall/Winter 2006 issue of OutFront magazine.

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