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Carina Fourie is an Associate Professor and the Benjamin Rabinowitz Chair in Medical Ethics at the University of Washington's Department of Philosophy, part of the College of Arts & Sciences. She also holds an adjunct role as an Associate Professor at the Department of Bioethics and Humanities (UW). Her work bridges bioethics, political philosophy, and feminist ethics, with a focus on health equity frameworks rooted in relational equality. She leads a book project under contract with Oxford University Press on equality's role in health equity.
Education: PhD in Philosophy from University College London (2007), MA and BA from University of Johannesburg. Postdoctoral research at the University of Zurich's Ethics Center. Prior work included occupational health policy research for UK industry/government.
Research interests include moral distress in healthcare professions, feminist critiques of justice in bioethics, global health inequities, and the ethical implications of healthcare systems. Recent publications address nurse marginalization, sufficientarianism, and two-tier healthcare systems.
Key contributions include groundbreaking work on moral distress in nursing (cited in Bioethics and AMA Journal of Ethics), critiques of global health partnerships, and analyses of inequity's emotional dimensions. Her current work integrates political philosophy to redefine health equity foundations.
Awards include the prestigious Benjamin Rabinowitz Chair in Medical Ethics. She contributes to affiliated programs at UW: Program on Ethics, Neuroethics Research Group, and Science, Technology & Society Studies. Her teaching and research emphasize interdisciplinary ethics and systemic social justice.
