Bonnie Steinbock
Professor
Department of Philosophy
Welcome to the home page of Professor Bonnie Steinbock of
the Department of Philosophy,
University at Albany, SUNY.
Her specialization is biomedical ethics, particularly reproduction and genetics. Professor Steinbock received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a faculty member of the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College and the Union Graduate College – Mount Sinai School of Medicine Bioethics program. A Fellow of the Hastings Center, and the Chair of its Fellows Council, she is also a member of the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproduction and Medicine (ASRM). She has served on a number of working groups in the United States and Europe, currently serving on “Pharmacological Treatment of Behavioral and Emotional Disturbances in Children: Engaging the Controversies,” and “The Ideal of Nature: Appeals to Nature in Debates about Biotechnology and the Environment.”
Recent articles have been on the moral status of embryos, embryonic stem cell research, prenatal genetic testing, and reproductive cloning. She is the author of Life Before Birth: The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses (Oxford,1992; paperback 1996) and the editor of Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Reproduction (Ashgate Publishing, 2002) and The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics (Oxford 2007). She is the co-editor (with John Arras and Alex John London) of Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, 7th edition (McGraw-Hill, forthcoming) the co-editor (with Alastair Norcross) of Killing and Letting Die (Fordham, 1994), the co-editor (with Dan Beauchamp) of New Ethics for the Public's Health (Oxford,1999), and the co-editor (with Ronald Bayer, Larry Gostin and Bruce Jennings) of Public Health Ethics: Theory, Policy and Practice (Oxford 2006).
She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in ethics, bioethics, and philosophy of law, graduate courses in public policy and public health, and is the director of the interdisciplinary minor in bioethics.
Use these links (or those to the left) for more information: You can look at a full Vita (in PDF format), or the page for the Philosophy Department here at the University at Albany, SUNY.