Rate My Professor Carina Fourie

Carina Fourie is the Benjamin Rabinowitz Chair in Medical Ethics and an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Washington, where she is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Bioethics and Humanities. She earned her PhD in Philosophy from University College London in 2007, along with BA and MA degrees from the University of Johannesburg. Following her doctorate, she conducted research on occupational health and its policy implications for UK industry and government. She later served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Ethics Center of the University of Zurich before joining the University of Washington. In 2021, she was promoted to Associate Professor, and in 2024, she received an NIH grant.

Fourie's research specializes in bioethics, political philosophy, and feminist ethics. She is authoring a book under contract with Oxford University Press exploring how relational or social equality should underpin health equity. Her scholarship examines moral distress and the marginalization of nurses; feminist critiques of justice in bioethics; the downsides of being better off for egalitarian distribution and ethos; COVID-19 gender and sex inequalities; discrimination, emotions, and health inequities; gender, status, and health gradients; global health partnership inequalities; wrongful discrimination and egalitarian ethos; moral distress distinctions; capabilities sufficiency in two-tier healthcare; social equality and esteem inequalities; moral distress in clinical ethics; diagnosis-related groups' effects on care; property-owning democracy's basic structure; and status equality as egalitarian ideal. She co-edited Social Equality: On What It Means to Be Equals (Oxford University Press, 2015) with Fabian Schuppert and Ivo Wallimann-Helmer, and What Is Enough? Sufficiency, Justice and Health (Oxford University Press, 2017) with Annette Rid. Notable publications include 'Moral Distress and the Marginalization of Nurses' (The American Journal of Bioethics, 2024), 'Discrimination, Emotion, and Health Inequities' (Les Ateliers de l'Éthique, 2019), 'Who Is Experiencing What Kind of Moral Distress?' (AMA Journal of Ethics, 2017), and 'What is Social Equality? An Analysis of Status Equality as a Strongly Egalitarian Ideal' (Res Publica, 2012).