Faculty: Ruth E. Groenhout

Ruth E. Groenhout, Professor, Philosophy

616-526-6412
rgroenho@calvin.edu
Hiemenga Hall 352

Weekly Schedule
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curriculum vitae

Educational Background

PhD, University of Notre Dame, 1993
BA, Calvin College, 1985

Courses

• Fundamental Questions in Philosophy (153)
• Ethics (205)
• Justice and the Common Good (207)
• Philosophy of Gender (211)
• Health Care Ethics (212)
• Philosophical Anthropology (375)
• Philosophy Topics: Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (396)

Research Interests

Bioethics, Feminist Theory, Ethical Theory

Books

Bioethics: A Reformed Look at Life and Death Choices (Grand Rapids: Faith Alive, 2009).

Transforming Care: A Christian Vision of Nursing Practice, with Mary Molewyck Doornbos and Kendra Hotz (Eerdmans, 2005).

Connected Lives: Human Nature and an Ethics of Care (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004).

Philosophy, Feminism, and Faith, with Marya Bower (Indiana University Press, 2003).

Recent Publications/Presentations

"The Difference Difference Makes: Public Health and the Complexities of Racial and Ethnic Research” Feminist Bioethics: At the Centre, on the Margins, Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven, Petya Fitzpatrick, and Jackie Leach Scully, eds. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).

"The Love of God the Father: Agape and Masculinity” in Visions of Agape, Craig Boyd, ed. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishers, 2008): 47-60.

"Not Without Hope: A Reformed Analysis of Sickness and Sin” Christian Bioethics, Vol. 12 no. 2. (2006): 133-150.

"Kenosis and Feminist Theory” Exploring Kenotic Christology: The Self-Emptying of God, C. Stephen Evans, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006): 392-419.

"Justice and Care” and “Medicine and Technology” (Worldview Lectures, 2009-2010).

"Power and Evidence: A Feminist Analysis of Evidence based Practice” presented at FAB Biennial conference: “Voice, Power, and Responsibility in Health Care,” Rijeka, Croatia (September 2008).

"B(e)aring Autonomy: A Feminist Critique” at conference: Thinking With(Out) Borders: International Political Theory in the 21st Century, St Andrews, Scotland (June 2008).

"Bioethics and the Social Structures of Medicine” Week-long seminar presented at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China (March 2008).

Hobbies and Interests

Quilting, Gardening

Above: Dutch Iris

Left: "Pineapple" Quilt

 

Additional information

Ruth Groenhout is on Sabbatical during the
Spring semester of 2011. She will be a member of the Community of Fellows at the Centre  for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, University of St Andrews, Scotland from February to April.

Visiting Hume in Scotland