Rebecca Kukla

Rebecca Kukla is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Her background in philosophy of science, philosophy of language, and cultural theory inform and enrich her work in bioethics. She is especially interested in how medical risk and uncertainty are represented and managed at the level of individual decision-making, scientific methodology, policy, and the culture at large. She gives media interviews, expert testimony, and policy advice on issues in the ethics of reproductive health care. She has served as co-coordinator of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network and is the current co-editor of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal.