Judith Andre is a philosophy

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 professor (retired) and virtue theorist. She earned her Ph.D.

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 at Michigan State University

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 in 1979 and has taught courses on ethical issues in global public health

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, ethics and development, animal welfare

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, and virtue theory at Old Dominion University

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 and Michigan State University before retiring.

Contributions to philosophy

Dr. Andre's work focuses on ethical issues brought about by globalization. She is especially interested in issues of public health in this broader context and often utalizes virtue theory when dealing with questions such as: What should be for sale?; Should we sell organs?; Should we sell wombs? For Andre, globalization brings about both "new moral challenges" and "new intellectual resources" from which to address these questions. She also looks at the connections between economics

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 and health. These current interests have grown out of earlier work including "Nagel, Williams and Moral Luck," and "Blocked Exchanges: A Taxonomy."

Selected publications

She is the author of over thirty peer-reviewed publications including "The Virtue of Honoring Oneself", "Disease" and the book Bioethics as Practice.

Awards and distinctions

Andre was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1990. In addition, she was invited to be a panel member at the 9th World Congress of Bioethics in Rijeka, Croatia and presented at the Institute for Biomedical Law and Ethics at the Ewha Women’s University in Seoul, South Korea. She also won the Outstanding University Woman Faculty Award presented by the Faculty-Professional Women’s Association at Michigan State University.

See also

• American philosophy
• American philosophers