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Biography
PhD in Philosophy, University College London: 2007
I am the Benjamin Rabinowitz Chair in Medical Ethics and a member of the Program on Ethics at the Philosophy Department, University of Washington (UW). I am also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Bioethics and Humanities, UW.
I work in bioethics, political philosophy, and feminist ethics. I am currently writing a book, under contract with Oxford University Press, on how a particular conception of equality - relational or social equality - should be the underlying ethical foundation for health equity.
My most recent publications are on:
moral distress and the marginalization of nurses; feminist challenges to conceptions of justice in bioethics; and "How Being Better Off Is Bad for You".
My most cited publications are on moral distress (e.g. in Bioethics; AMA Journal of Ethics) and I have also written on inequalities in global health partnerships (Medicine Anthropology Theory); inequity, emotions and health; sufficientarianism and two-tier healthcare systems; and relational equality (also known as social equality), among other topics.
After completing my PhD at University College London, I conducted research on occupational health and its policy for UK industry and government. Before joining UW, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Ethics Center, University of Zurich. My BA and MA degrees are from the University of Johannesburg.
For a list of my publications, see my ORCID record (ID: 0000-0001-7605-1494).
Research
Selected Research
- Fourie, Carina, and Georgina Campelia. 2024. “Moral Distress and the Marginalization of Nurses.” The American Journal of Bioethics 24 (1): 132–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2023.2278555.
- Fourie, Carina. “‘How Could Anybody Think That This Is the Appropriate Way to Do Bioethics?’ Feminist Challenges for Conceptions of Justice in Bioethics.” In The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics. Routledge, 2022.
- Fourie, Carina. “How Being Better Off Is Bad for You: Implications for Distribution, Relational Equality, and an Egalitarian Ethos.” In N. Stoljar and K. Voigt (ed.) Autonomy and Equality: Relational Approaches. Routledge, 2022.
- Fourie, Carina, and Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra. “Implications of COVID-19’s Gender and Sex Inequalities: The Significance of Social Justice for Pandemic Responses.” IJFAB Blog (blog), October 13, 2020.
- Fourie, Carina. "Discrimination, Emotion, and Health Inequities." Les Ateliers de l'Éthique/The Ethics Forum 13, no. 3 (2019):123-149
- Fourie, Carina. "Gender, Status and the Steepness of The Social Gradients in Health." International Journal for Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 12, no. 1, April 2019.
- Fourie, Carina. "The Trouble with Inequalities in Global Health Partnerships: An Ethical Assessment". In Medicine Anthropology Theory (2018).
- Fourie, Carina. "Wrongful Private Discrimination and the Egalitarian Ethos." In The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination, edited by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen. Routledge, 2018.
- Fourie, Carina. “Who Is Experiencing What Kind of Moral Distress? Distinctions for Moving from a Narrow to a Broad Definition of Moral Distress.” AMA Journal of Ethics 19, no. 6 (2017): 578. doi:10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.6.nlit1-1706.
- Fourie, Carina. "Sufficiency of Capabilities, Social Equality, and Two-Tiered Health Care Systems." In What Is Enough?: Sufficiency, Justice, and Health, edited by Carina Fourie and Annette Rid, 185-204. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Fourie, Carina. "The Sufficiency View: A Primer." In What Is Enough?: Sufficiency, Justice, and Health, edited by Carina Fourie and Annette Rid, 11-29. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Fourie, Carina and Annette Rid, eds. What Is Enough? Sufficiency, Justice and Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Fourie, Carina. "The Ethical Significance of Moral Distress: Inequality and Nurses’ Constraint-Distress." American Journal of Bioethics 16, no. 12 (2016): 23–25. doi:10.1080/15265161.2016.1239783.
- Fourie, Carina. "Review - Inequality: What Can Be Done?" In Economics and Philosophy 32, no. 2 (2016): 366–73. doi:10.1017/S0266267116000067.
- Fourie, Carina, and Verina Wild. "The Public Accountability of Swiss Health Care Reform" [Translated from the German]. In Vom Konflikt zur Lösung: Ethische Entscheidungswege in der Biomedizin, edited by O. Rauprich, R. J. Jox & G. Marckmann. Münster: Mentis, 2016.
- Fourie, Carina. 2015. To Praise and to Scorn: The Problem of Inequalities of Esteem for Social Egalitarians, in: Fourie, C., Schuppert, Fabian, Wallimann-Helmer, Ivo (Eds.), Social Equality: On What It Means to Be Equals. Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 87–106.
- Fourie, Carina. 2015. Moral Distress and Moral Conflict in Clinical Ethics. Bioethics 29, 91–97. doi:10.1111/bioe.12064
- Fourie, Carina; Schuppert, Fabian; Wallimann-Helmer, Ivo (Eds.), 2015. Social Equality: On What It Means to Be Equals. NY: Oxford University Press.
- Fourie, Carina, Nikola Biller-Andorno, and Verina Wild. 2014. "Systematically Evaluating the Impact of Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs) on Health Care Delivery: A Matrix of Ethical Implications." Health Policy 115, no. 2-3: 157–164.
- Fourie, Carina. 2013. The Basic Structure Objection and the Institutions of a Property-Owning Democracy: Comment on Andrew Walton. Analyse & Kritik 35, 187–192.
- Fourie, Carina. 2012. What is Social Equality? An Analysis of Status Equality as a Strongly Egalitarian Ideal. Res Publica 18, 107–126. doi:10.1007/s11158-011-9162-2