Department of Philosophy

Associate Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403 Office: 333 Shatzel Hall Office Phone: (419) 372-9974 email: kmdixon@bgnet.bgsu.edu

Professor Dixon, a clinically trained medical ethicist, regularly teaches courses in medical ethics, the philosophy of health, and the philosophy of death and dying.  Her interests in gender, health care and social constructionism led her to develop the courses "Sex and the Body Politics" and "Illness Chronicles" as well as courses on the history of feminism and post-modernism.  Dr. Dixon teaches a graduate level, transdisciplinary introduction to medical ethics, "Fundamentals of Medical Ethics."  In addition to her academic duties, Dixon has been the medical ethicist for several university hospitals.

Professor Dixon's recent publications include "Minding the Uterus: C. T. Javert and Psychosomatic Abortion" in Gravon et. al, Writing and Speaking the Body: Feminist and Rhetorical Studies of Reproductive Sciences and Technologies; "The Quality of Mercy: Reflections on Provider Assisted Suicide," The Journal of Clinical Ethics, "Oppressive Limits: Callahan's Foundation Myth," The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, "Responsibility, Reproductive Choice, and the Limits of Appropriate State Intervention: The Battle Over RU 486," Professional Ethics and Social Responsibility, Daniel Wueste, ed., "Ethical Issues in Surgical Innovation in Pediatric Populations," Reconstructive Tracheal Surgery in Infancy, Thom E. Lobe, ed., and "Longing for Mercy, Requesting Death: Pharmaceutical Care and Pharmaceutically Assisted Death, co-authored with Dr. Karen Kier, The American Journal of Health Systems Pharmacy, Vol. 55, March 15, 1998. Her current research is on assisted death, advance directives, and psychosomatology in American obstetrics and gynecology.

Department of Philosophy
305 Shatzel Hall,
Bowling Green State University,
Bowling Green, OH 43403.

Phone: 419-372-2117
Fax: 419-372-8191
Email: mdeluca@bgnet.bgsu.edu