What About the Family?

Hilde Lindemann is Emerita Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. A Fellow of the Hastings Center and a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, her ongoing research interests are in feminist bioethics, feminist ethics, the ethics of families, and the social construction of persons and their identities. She is the former editor of The Hastings Center Report as well as of Hypatia: A Journal ofFeminist Philosophy.Marian Verkerk is Full Professor Ethics of Care at the University Medical Centre of Groningen (UMCG) and the University of Groningen. She is interested in exploring how questions of morality and ethics are embedded in relational perspectives and experiences of care. She was previously program leader of an international research consortium on Ethics of Families. Since 2017 she has served as project leader on Patient Engagement at the UMCG.Janice McLaughlin is Professor of Sociology at Newcastle University. Her research interests focus on childhood disability and the examination of its surrounding social and institutional worlds, including family. Though a sociologist, she draws from associated disciplines such as anthropology and bioethics, with a strong emphasis on empirical qualitative research. Her most recent book (with Edmund Coleman-Fountain and Emma Clavering) is Disabled Childhoods: MonitoringDifferences and Emerging Identities (Routledge, 2018).