Rebecca
Kukla
Professor of Philosophy and Obstetrics
and Gynecology
Ph.D. Pittsburgh
1996. Prof. Kukla joined the USF Philosophy
Department in Fall 2007. She is also Professor of Obstetrics
and Gynecology and a core faculty member in the graduate program
in Medical Humanities and Bioethics at USF. In addition
to her Ph.D. in Philosophy, Rebecca Kukla completed an honours
B.A. in Philosophy at the University of Toronto in 1990, a Greenwall
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioethics and Health Policy at Johns
Hopkins University in 2005, and her Sommelier Certification at
Algonquin College in 2007. She is the author of Mass
Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies (Rowman
and Littlefield 2005), the editor of Aesthetics and Cognition
in Kant's Critical Philosophy (Cambridge 2006), and, with
Mark Lance, the co-author of 'Yo!' and 'Lo!': The Pragmatic
Topography of the Space of Reasons (Harvard University Press
2008). She is the current co-coordinator of the Feminist
Approaches to Bioethics Network, a scholarly society with members
in thirty countries. She holds a $100,000 research grant
from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
for a project entitled "Autonomy and the Negotiation of
Information in Reproductive Health Care". Her research
interests include philosophical and cultural studies of medicine,
epistemology, eighteenth century philosophy, and feminist philosophy.
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