Heather Widdows
I am John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham where I teach moral philosophy, virtue ethics and bioethics.
My current research is on beauty from the perspective of moral philosophy and justice. I currently hold a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to write my book 'Perfect Me!' (Princeton University Press). Other research interests include: virtue ethics, especially the philosophy of Iris Murdoch and the ethics of care; global ethics, including multiculturalism, global values and the war on terror; women’s rights and feminist activism; bioethical issues, particularly, reproductive and genetic ethics as well as concerns about property and commodification.
I am currently PI on the AHRC-funded 'Changing Requirements of Beauty Network' (see the link to 'Beauty Demands' in the Profile section on the right). I have previously led a number of funded projects on issues of property in the body; reproductive rights; human tissue; war on terror and ownership and governance of the genome.
I currently serve as a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Previously I was a member of UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council (2007 to 2013) and was on the REF Philosophy Sub-Panel (REF 2014). I am Series Editor of the Edinburgh Series of Global Ethics, and on the editorial board of Globalizations and Health Care Analysis.
Address: Department of Philosophy,
University of Birmingham, UK
My current research is on beauty from the perspective of moral philosophy and justice. I currently hold a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to write my book 'Perfect Me!' (Princeton University Press). Other research interests include: virtue ethics, especially the philosophy of Iris Murdoch and the ethics of care; global ethics, including multiculturalism, global values and the war on terror; women’s rights and feminist activism; bioethical issues, particularly, reproductive and genetic ethics as well as concerns about property and commodification.
I am currently PI on the AHRC-funded 'Changing Requirements of Beauty Network' (see the link to 'Beauty Demands' in the Profile section on the right). I have previously led a number of funded projects on issues of property in the body; reproductive rights; human tissue; war on terror and ownership and governance of the genome.
I currently serve as a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Previously I was a member of UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council (2007 to 2013) and was on the REF Philosophy Sub-Panel (REF 2014). I am Series Editor of the Edinburgh Series of Global Ethics, and on the editorial board of Globalizations and Health Care Analysis.
Address: Department of Philosophy,
University of Birmingham, UK
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Examining all of Murdoch's contributions to moral philosophy from her short papers to Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, Heather Widdows provides an accessible and systematised account of Murdoch's moral concepts and offers a clear and critical exposition of her thought. By clarifying Murdoch's central themes, core ideas and her picture of the moral life, this book enables her work to be more easily understood and so utilised in current debates.
Edited Books by Heather Widdows
- normative theory
- conflict and violence
- poverty and development
- economic justice
- bioethics and health justice
- environment and climate ethics.
Covering the theoretical and practical aspects of global ethics as well as policy, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Global Ethics provides a benchmark for the study of global ethics to date, as well as outlining future developments. It will prove an invaluable reference for policy-makers, and is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, international relations, political science, environmental and development studies and human rights law.
Bringing together a number of internationally renowned scholars, the book explicitly addresses debates about the scope and hierarchies of justice and considers how different approaches and conceptions of justice inter relate. It explores a diversity of themes relating to global social justice including globalisation, human rights, ecological justice, gender and sexuality, migration and trafficking, global health challenges, post-conflict resolution and torture.
Global Social Justice will be vital reading for anyone interested in the political/philosophical theories and practical issues surrounding global social justice, including students and scholars of Political Science, International Relations, Philosophy, Global Ethics, Environmental Studies, Development Studies, Human Rights Law and Global Studies.
In attempting to answer such burning questions for women in the 21st e century this book brings together work from international authors. It addresses thee issues from various disciplines and perspectives asking crucial questions about the status of women's rights, particularly their reproductive rights, in the current context. It does this by outlining the current state of reproductive rights in Europe, by considering the rapidly changing face of reproductive rights as new technologies revolutionise reproductive capability and finally by projecting possible futures of women's reproductive rights.
Papers by Heather Widdows
Examining all of Murdoch's contributions to moral philosophy from her short papers to Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, Heather Widdows provides an accessible and systematised account of Murdoch's moral concepts and offers a clear and critical exposition of her thought. By clarifying Murdoch's central themes, core ideas and her picture of the moral life, this book enables her work to be more easily understood and so utilised in current debates.
- normative theory
- conflict and violence
- poverty and development
- economic justice
- bioethics and health justice
- environment and climate ethics.
Covering the theoretical and practical aspects of global ethics as well as policy, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Global Ethics provides a benchmark for the study of global ethics to date, as well as outlining future developments. It will prove an invaluable reference for policy-makers, and is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, international relations, political science, environmental and development studies and human rights law.
Bringing together a number of internationally renowned scholars, the book explicitly addresses debates about the scope and hierarchies of justice and considers how different approaches and conceptions of justice inter relate. It explores a diversity of themes relating to global social justice including globalisation, human rights, ecological justice, gender and sexuality, migration and trafficking, global health challenges, post-conflict resolution and torture.
Global Social Justice will be vital reading for anyone interested in the political/philosophical theories and practical issues surrounding global social justice, including students and scholars of Political Science, International Relations, Philosophy, Global Ethics, Environmental Studies, Development Studies, Human Rights Law and Global Studies.
In attempting to answer such burning questions for women in the 21st e century this book brings together work from international authors. It addresses thee issues from various disciplines and perspectives asking crucial questions about the status of women's rights, particularly their reproductive rights, in the current context. It does this by outlining the current state of reproductive rights in Europe, by considering the rapidly changing face of reproductive rights as new technologies revolutionise reproductive capability and finally by projecting possible futures of women's reproductive rights.
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will offer five arguments for rejecting the choice paradigm.
This chapter is available to be downloaded from this site in pre-publicaton version.
In order to make this argument the chapter begins by outlining why only a global bioethics or ethics is appropriate. It will argue that global bioethics is necessary for both practical and ethical reasons. As a matter of practicality a global approach to bioethics is necessary as health issues are essentially global; and ethically, not to recognize the global implications of health issues is to endorse the significant injustice which occurs in the arena of global health. Given this the chapter will then go on to consider why, given the overwhelming reasons for adopting a global ethical framework, that the debate about whether ethics should be local or global is still ongoing. The chapter will finish with a brief overview of the global ethics model and will suggest that it might address some of the concerns of those who are wary of global approaches.
This chapter is available Open Access (http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472544582.ch-003) or by clicking the link above.
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This chapter will explore the hypothesis that NRTs support and promote concepts of genetic relatedness – for both couples considering their reproductive choices and in reinforcing wider societal presumptions. By examining this issue it will speak to the broader debate on how women and relationships are (and can be) conceptualised, and thus, in turn, contribute to the debate on whether access to NRTs should be a reproductive right. In assessing this claim this chapter will explore the hypothesis with relation to a number of NRTs: first, in vitro fertilization (IVF); and second, third-party NRTs, particularly, donor insemination (DI) and embryo donation.
This chapter is available to be downloaded from this site in pre-publicaton version.