 | Christine Straehle Professor - University of Ottawa |
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01.03.2018-30.04.2018
Vulnerability, Migration and Access to Health – the moral, social and political implications of asylum
Christine Straehle is Professor of Ethics and Applied Ethics at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs with a cross appointment in the department of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. She has written on issues of global justice, health and migration. Her latest research examines vulnerability as a concept in health justice theory, and questions of provision of health in the context of migration and refuge. She has published on questions raised by surrogacy, which was the subject of her first stay at Brocher in 2014, health inequality and health risk. Her work has appeared in a variety of journals, such as Bioethics, Politics, Philosophy and Economics and the Journal of Applied Philosophy. She is the editor or co-editor of several books, including Health Inequalities and Global Justice (EUP, 2012) and Vulnerability, Autonomy and Applied Ethics (Routledge, 2017). -
03.07.2014-30.07.2014
The Ethics of international Surrogacy
My aim is to analyze different uses of vulnerability in current moral and political philosophical writings to distinguish different conceptualizations of vulnerability to show what kind of vulnerability is justice relevant. A clear definition of vulnerability will allow us to achieve two things: first, it will aid in clarifying why vulnerability is an important element when thinking about justice. Second, developing a justice-relevant concept of vulnerability will aid in assessing duties of global justice that may arise from contexts of vulnerability. I want to show that self-negating and circumstantial vulnerability need to be addressed by global justice theories while circumstantial vulnerability may be parameter in our justice evaluations. I propose that applying a concept of self-negating and circumstantial vulnerability to global justice will yield a concept of positive duties of global justice, namely to create conditions of non-vulnerability, rather than a negative duty to not inflict conditions of vulnerability. The particular case of international surrogacy will illustrate the importance of carefully analysing what kind of vulnerability is at stake, why it is morally problematic, and what duties of justice follow from the moral context of surrogacy. In the broader context of international health equity, protecting against vulnerability in autonomy is important if such vulnerability can lead to making choices detrimental to individual health and can lead to exploitation of vulnerable.
Christine Straehle is Professor for Political Philosophy and Public Affairs in the Department of Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Groningen. She has held numerous prestigious fellowships, most recently she was DAAD-John-Stuart-Mill Chair in Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Hamburg and a fellow in the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, in the Philosophy department at the University of St. Andrews. Her research focuses on questions of global justice and conceptions of vulnerabilty and autonomy in moral philosophy. Her work has appeared in publications such as Bioethics, the Journal of Applied Philosophy, the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, and the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. She is editor or co-editor of four volumnes, most recently of Vulnerability, Autonomy and Applied Ethics (Routledge).
http://www.rug.nl/staff/c.straehle/
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