Kirstin Borgerson, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University, is the newest member of the editorial team for Health Care Ethics in Canada. Kirstin researches and teaches in medical epistemology and medical ethics and spends quite a lot of time thinking about how health care professionals should answer the question, "What's your evidence for that?" She currently holds a CIHR Catalyst Grant in Ethics and is investigating whether medical researchers have an ethical obligation to adjust their methods or questions in order to conduct research on matters of greatest clinical importance. Kirstin's research and teaching is shaped by her upbringing in Saskatchewan and a deep commitment to the vision of public health care developed and defended by her parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents.
Barry Hoffmaster, Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario, teaches and writes about bioethics and philosophy of law. He was the Director of the Department's Ph.D. Program in Biomedical Ethics, and in preparing for that position over several years, he spent time in a diverse array of clinical settings. That experience changed his mind about the nature of morality; he learned that morality is a human endeavor, not a theory, and that people, not principles, are the centrepiece of morality. His participation in clinical settings continued while he served as the Director of the Westminster Institute for Ethics and Human Values and reaffirmed his conviction about the importance of empirical work in bioethics. He is a past President of the Canadian Bioethics Society and the first Canadian elected as a Fellow of The Hastings Center. With a former colleague, he is working on a book that recognizes the inevitability of judgment in bioethics, and everywhere else in life, and that provides an account of the rationality of judgment.
Susan Sherwin, University Research Professor, Emeritus, Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie University, is widely known in Canada and internationally for her theoretical contributions to bioethics and feminist ethics. Her books, No Longer Patient and The Politics of Women's Health, helped to launch the interdisciplinary field of feminist bioethics. She has served on national advisory committees dealing with reproductive and genetic technologies and public health ethics. Her influence in these areas has been recognized by her winning the Killam Prize in Humanities (2006) and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Canadian Bioethics Society (2007).
