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Professor<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Office Hours<\/strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email for appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vida Panitch is a Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the Ethics and Public Affairs programs at Carleton University. She received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her primary research project addresses the moral boundaries of markets \u2013 specifically markets in public goods, including health care and education, and physical goods, including body parts and intimate services \u2013  and the extent to which theories of exploitation, commodification, and inequality can help us determine their permissible regulation. She has published various papers in a number of academic journals and edited volumes in which she contests philosophical arguments that seek to defend both the moral noxiousness and legal impermissibility of body markets. Her edited volume, Exploitation: from Theory to Practice,<\/em> explores the inadequacies of theoretical accounts of exploitation in accounting for real world instances thereof, including global commercial surrogacy and paid kidney donations. Her paper in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics,<\/em> entitled \u201cLiberalism, Commodification, and Justice,\u201d offers a political liberal account of the legitimate boundaries of markets in bodies, as well as in public and civic goods. She is currently co-editing The Routledge Handbook of Commodification<\/em> (forthcoming 2022). Her secondary research project explores the philosophical justifications for, and the actual distributive merits of a basic income scheme, and considers whether a basic income could in effect live up to the potential that various political philosophers, economists, and social activists have imagined for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Routledge Handbook of Commodification<\/em>, Vida Panitch and Elodie Bertrand eds., (forthcoming: Routledge UK, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exploitation: From Practice to Theory<\/em>, eds Monique Deveaux and Vida Panitch (Rowman&Littlefield, February 2017)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Select Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panitch, Vida. Exploitation, in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics<\/em>, Christopher Melenovsky, ed. (London: Routledge): 217-226 (2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panitch, Vida. Liberalism, Commodification, and Justice, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics <\/em>19(1) 2020: 62-82. https:\/\/philpapers.org\/rec\/PANLCA-3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panitch, Vida. Basic Income and Intimate Labor, The Future of Work, Technology, and Basic Income<\/em>, Michael Cholbi and Michael Weber eds. (New York: Routledge): 157-174.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panitch, Vida, and L. Chad Horne, “Commodification, Inequality, and Kidney Markets,\u201d Social Theory and Practice<\/em> 44(1) 2018: 121-143.  https:\/\/philpapers.org\/rec\/PANCIA-4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panitch, Vida, “Exploitation and Intimate Labour, in Exploitation: From Practice to Theory<\/em>, Monique Deveaux and Vida Panitch eds. (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017): 119-137.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panitch, Vida, and L. Chad Horne, “Vulnerability, Health Care, and Need,”  in Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics, <\/em>Christine Straehle ed. (London: Routledge, 2017): 101-120.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panitch, Vida and Straehle, Christine, “Symposium on Reproductive Markets”, Journal of Applied Philosophy,<\/em> guest eds. Vol 33, no 2 (May 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panitch, Vida, \u201cAssisted Reproduction and Distributive Justice,\u201d Bioethics 28(3) <\/i>doi: 10.1111\/bioe.12067<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panitch, Vida, \u201cGlobal Surrogacy: Exploitation to Empowerment,\u201d<\/a> Journal of Global Ethics <\/i>9(3), November 2013: 329-343 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panitch, Vida, \u201cExploitation, Justice, and Parity in International Clinical Research,\u201d<\/a> Journal of Applied Philosophy <\/i>30(4), November 2013: 304-318 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panitch Vida, \u201cSurrogate Tourism and Reproductive Rights,\u201d Hypatia 28(2), April 2013  http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/hypa.12005\/full<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panitch, Vida, and Heath, Joseph, \u201cWhy Cash Violates Neutrality,\u201d <\/a>Basic Income Studies<\/em> v.5 n.1 (April 2010)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panitch, Vida, \u201cBasic Income, Decommodification, and the Welfare State,\u201d <\/a> Philosophy and Social Criticism <\/em>vol 37 no 8 (Oct 2011)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panitch, Vida, \u201cExploitation and Developing Countries: Ethics of Clinical Research\u201d<\/a> eds. Jennifer Hawkins and Ezekiel Emanuel, Philosophy in Review<\/em>, v.29 n.5 (2009)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTime to Decriminalize Payment for Sperm, Ova and Surrgogacy,\u201d Ottawa Citizen<\/em> May 11, 2018 http:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/opinion\/columnists\/panitch-time-to-decriminalize-payment-for-sperm-ova-and-surrogacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBC Radio\u2019s The Edition w. Michael Enright, panelist on Blood Plasma Payment debate, aired Sunday February 25  http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/thesundayedition\/the-sunday-edition-february-25-2018-1.4548650\/the-debate-over-paying-canadians-for-plasma-1.4548659<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open Letter: \u201cEthicists and Economists express concerns about banning compensation for plasma donors\u201d Jan. 16, 2018   https:\/\/donationethics.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having Our Baby: The Surrogacy Boom<\/em>, interviewee, CBC Documentary Channel, premiered Feb. 28.  http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/documentarychannel\/docs\/having-our-baby<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cProvincial Funding of IVF Should Be Restricted on Basis of Income,” Impact Ethics<\/em> Blog, Nov. 14, 2014  https:\/\/impactethics.ca\/tag\/vida-panitch\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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