A recent book on bioethics has all men contributor; it is edited by two men and the blurbs are all by men. See:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262519593/ref=rdr_ext_tmb
The book apparently draws on papers from an earlier conference. Comments on Amazon make it appear as though the book is really starting up a new speciality in philosophy. And unless someone makes an effort to change things, it will quickly become an area women somehow can’t really do work in. And that is pretty serious. Why it is serious is being spelled out in the NY Times this week on “The Stone.”
Thanks, LG
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/women-underrepresented-science-evolutionary-biology-1.281055
Paul Allonby, many thanks for the link. I urge other reader to follow it to get a UK perspective on issues we’ve just been looking at in more in the US context.
For a nice contrast, see this edited special issue on Philosophical Perspectives on Synthetic Biology: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13698486/44/2
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What will they think of next? The high heeled shoe?