Carolyn McLeod
Distinguished Professor
Associate Dean Research and Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
Applied Ethics, Feminist Philosophy, Health Care Ethics, Moral Philosophy
BA, MA Queens;
E-mail: cmcleod2@uwo.ca
Website: carolynmcleod.com
My research focuses on issues in applied ethics that concern parenthood, procreation, professional relationships, or health care; issues in feminist philosophy, especially feminist moral psychology; and questions in moral philosophy about the nature of moral concepts such as trust, autonomy, and conscience.
Grants
SSHRC Insight Grant (2023-2027), “Institutional Distrust and Injustice,” (McLeod P.I.)
Recent Publications
Book
McLeod, C. 2020. Conscience in Reproductive Health Care: Prioritizing Patient Interests. Oxford University Press.
Articles
McLeod, C. Forthcoming. “Valuing Conscience and the Conscientious Provision of Abortions,” Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues.
Demir-Doğuoğlu, H. and C. McLeod. In press. “Towards a Feminist Theory of Distrust.” In The Moral Psychology of Trust. Ed. M. Alfano, D. Collins, and I. V. Jovanović. Rowman & Littlefield.
Stewart, H., E. Cichocki, and C. McLeod. 2022. “A Perfect Storm for Epistemic Injustice: Algorithmic Targeting and Sorting on Social Media,” Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 8(3/4), 2022: Article 8 (28 pages).
McLeod, C. 2022. “The Right to Reproduce.” In the Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics. Ed. W. Rogers, S. Carter, V. Entwistle, C. Mills, J. Leach Scully. New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 451-462.
McLeod, C. 2022. “A Summary of Conscience in Reproductive Health Care: Prioritizing Patient Interests” and “Responding to My ‘Critics,’” for an author-meets-critics symposium of my book, IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 15(2), 2022: 131-136 and 161-166.
McLeod, C. 2021. “Justified Asymmetries: Positive and Negative Claims to Conscience in Reproductive Health Care,” AJOB (American Journal of Bioethics) 21(8), 2021: 60-62.
McLeod, C. 2020. “Trust,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta, substantial revision 2020, originally published 2006, URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/trust/.
*McLeod, C. and E. Ryman. 2020. “Trust, Autonomy, and the Fiduciary Relationship.” In Fiduciaries and Trust: Ethics, Politics, Economics, and Law. Ed. P. B. Miller and M. Harding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. pp. 74-86.
"Trust," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta, substantially revised 2020, originally published 2006, URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/trust/
“Trust, Autonomy, and the Fiduciary Relationship” (with E. Ryman). In Fiduciaries and Trust: Ethics, Politics, Economics, and Law.;Ed. P. B. Miller and M. Harding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 74-86.
“My Relational Autonomy and My Relationship with Susan Sherwin,” IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Special “SueFest” Issue, 13(2), 2020: 9-11.
“Commentary on ‘Four types of gender bias affecting women surgeons, and their cumulative impact’ by Hutchison,” Journal of Medical Ethics, Published Online First: 2020. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2019-106020.
McLeod, Carolyn. “Review: Steeped in Blood: Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family by Frances Latchford,” Adoption & Culture, forthcoming 2021.
"Feminist Approaches to Moral Luck" (with J. Tomchishen). In Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck. Ed. I. Church and R. Hartmann. New York: Routledge, 2019. pp. 426-35.
"Parental Licensing and Discrimination" (with A. Botterell). In the Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Childhood and Children. Ed. G. Calder, J. De Wispelaere, and A. Gheaus. New York: Routledge, 2018. pp. 202-212.
"The Medical Non-Necessity of In Vitro Fertilization", IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 10(1), 2017: 78-102.
