Marin Gillis

Day: Friday, April 22
Hour: 4:30 - 5:00 pm
Presentation: The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate and the Commodification of Women: Parallels between the morality of abortion and embryonic stem cell research

Marin Gillis is an Assistant Professor of Health Care Ethics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, an appointment she accepted last fall. She is an executive member of the Association of Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) and a member of the Boston Academic Bioethics Roundtable (BABR). She has followed graduate programs in philosophy in Belgium (Ph.L. Higher Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven) and Canada (PhD U of Calgary). She held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral fellowship at Calgary and was awarded numerous scholarships there.