Sue Dodds
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Susan Dodds
Areas of public interest: (examples of areas of public interest this person is qualified to comment on)
aged care; Australia; autonomy; bioethics; civil participation; civil society; citizenship; democracy; democratic representation; developing world justice; embryonic stem cell; feminism; feminist bioethics; gender; health policy; Human Research Ethics Committees; human experimentation; human rights; indigenous peoples; justice; land rights; law; legal theory; liberalism; liberal political theory; multicultural states; nation state; nursing; policy making; property; research ethics; self; sovereignty
Contact Details:
Ph: (+61 2) 4221 3621
email: sdodds@uow.edu.au
University of Wollongong
Wollongong. NSW. 2522.
Title & Institutional Affiliations:
Professor of Philosophy, University of Wollongong
Chief Investigator ARC Discovery Grant 'Big Picture Bioethics: policy-making and liberal democracy'
Chief Investigator and leader of the Ethics Project for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electormaterials Science (ACES)
Selected Media appearances and public comments:
'Women's work is far from done yet', with Rachel Ankeny, The Canberra Times, 8 March 2007
'Political Mea Culpa', Australia Talks, ABC Radio National, 6 March 2007.
'Stem cell scientists seek abnormal embryos', ABC Science Online, by Judy Skatssoon, 8 February 2006
General Areas of Academic Expertise:
Applied Ethics; Bioethics; Political Philosophy; Feminism; Ethics and Technology; Philosophy of Law
Selected Publications:
'Bioethics and Democracy: Competing Roles of National Bioethics Organisations', (with Colin Thomson) Bioethics, vol 20 no 6, pp 326-338, 2006.
'Regulation of hESC Research in Australia: Promises and Pitfalls for Deliberative Democratic Approaches' (with Rachel A. Ankeny) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry vol. 3, pp. 95-107, 2006
'Gender, Ageing and Injustice: social and political contexts of bioethics', Journal of Medical Ethics vol 31 no 5, pp. 295-8, 2005.
Linking Visions Feminist Bioethics, Human Rights and the Developing World, Edited volume with Rosemarie Tong, and Anne Donchin, Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.
Commissioned Federal Government Report - Human Research Ethics Handbook: Commentary on the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Research Involving Humans. with Paul Komesaroff, Paul McNeill, Loane Skene (editorial committee); Colin Thomson (executive editor). Canberra : Commonwealth of Australia.

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