Dr. Christine Overall

Christine Overall, Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, is an internationally recognized authority on the ethics of reproduction, including the issues arising out of new reproductive technologies. Her contributions to bioethics, and more generally, to applied philosophy, display clarity of analysis, incisiveness of argument, sensitivity to inter-disciplinary concerns, and an unwavering feminist commitment. She is a teacher of rare distinction and a respected newspaper columnist, and her work is imbued by the conviction that philosophy is indispensable to education for citizenship and that it can be made accessible to members of the general public.