Bonnie Steinbock

Bonnie Steinbock received her PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley (1974). She taught at the College of Wooster before moving to the Department of Philosophy at the University at Albany (1977-2014). A Fellow of the Hastings Center since 1986, she is the author of Life Before Birth: The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos (Oxford University Press, 1992, 2011) and, with her husband, Paul Menzel, Bioethics: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2023). She has written 70 articles, many blog posts, and edited or co-edited Killing and Letting Die (1980, 1994), Public Health Ethics: Theory, Policy, and Practice (2006), the Oxford Handbook of Bioethics (2008), and Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, 4th - 8th editions. She had a scholarly residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, in Italy (2008). She was a Fulbright Senior Specialist at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand (2015), and has held Distinguished Visiting Professorships, at Santa Clara University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Monash University.