Professor in the College, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, and the Committee on Genetics at the University of Chicago, where she is involved in cases raising ethical questions. Trained in philosophy, Dr. Mahowald taught in the philosophy departments of Villanova University and Indian University at Indianapolis for 12 years. Since 1982, she moved to a medical school/hospital setting.  An author of numerous articles in health care and philosophical journals, she has also had grants or fellowships from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Energy, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Her most recent books are Women and Children in Health Care: An Unequal Majority; Disability, Difference, Discrimination: Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public Policy. The third edition of her Philosophy of Woman: Classical to Current Concepts appeared in 1994. Her latest book, entitled Genes, Women, Equality, is slated for publication by Oxford University Press in October 1999.

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