Hilde Lindemann

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Hilde Lindemann
M.A. Ph.D.
Alma materFordham University
EmployerMichigan State University

Hilde Lindemann (also Hilde Lindemann Nelson) is an American philosophy professor and bioethicist and emerita professor at Michigan State University. Lindemann earned her B.A. in German language and literature in 1969 at the University of Georgia. Lindemann also earned her M.A. in theatre history and dramatic literature, in 1972, at the University of Georgia. Lindemann began her career as a copyeditor for several universities. [1] She then moved on to a job at the Hastings Center in New York City, an institute focused on bioethics research, and co-authored book The Patient in the Family, with James Lindemann Nelson, before deciding to earn a Ph.D. in philosophy at Fordham University in 2000. [2] Previously, she taught at the University of Tennessee and Vassar College and served as the associate editor of the Hastings Center Report (1990–95). Lindemann usually teaches courses on feminist philosophy, identity and agency, naturalized bioethics, and narrative approaches to bioethics at Michigan State University.

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Contributions to philosophy

Lindemann's work primarily focuses on feminist bioethics, the ethics of families, feminist ethics, and the social construction of identities. [2] She is the former editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy [3] and was also coeditor, with Sara Ruddick and Margaret Urban Walker, of the Feminist Constructions series for Rowman & Littlefield. In addition, she coedited, with James Lindemann Nelson, a series on Reflective Bioethics for Routledge. [2] Lindemann is a Hastings Center Fellow, a member of the advisory board for the Women's Bioethics Project (2006–), and was the president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (2008–2009).

Hilde Lindemann is a narrative ethicist. A narrative approach uses stories and relationships between people in specific cases, as well as generalizable examples, for moral contexts and discussion (Gotlib [4] ).

Two of her books, Holding and Letting Go: The Social Practice of Personal Identities and Alzheimer's: Answers to Hard Questions for Families, co-authored by her partner James Lindemann Nelson, have various reviews that summarize philosophical theories and ethics demonstrated in her works.

The review of Holding and Letting Go: The Social Practice of Personal Identities and Alzheimer's Answer to Hard Questions for Families explains that Lindemann adopts a non-obscure, story-related approach to make readers think about realistic situations: "Only when we see ethical lives as diachronically and interpersonally structured and as embedded in narratively rich contexts can ethical reflection take hold in actual persons' lives" (Christman [5] ).

The review of the co-authored book, Alzheimer's: Answers to Hard Questions for Families, also demonstrates that Lindemann employs case studies and life experiences for the patients and caregivers to convey ideas in her work (Moody [6] ). This method of provoking thought is aimed at a wide general audience of people who are not necessarily ethics scholars.

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Professional publications

Lindemann has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in journals such as The Journal of Medical Ethics, [7] The American Journal of Bioethics, [8] The Hastings Center Report, [9] Metaphilosophy, [10] and Hypatia. [11] Her books include Holding and Letting Go: The Social Practice of Personal Identities, [12] An Invitation to Feminist Ethics, [13] Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair, [14] Alzheimer's: Answers to Hard Questions for Families, [15] and The Patient in the Family. [16] Lindemann has also edited five collections: Feminism and Families;Stories and Their Limits: Narrative Approaches to Bioethics;Rights, Recognition, and Responsibility: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory;Meaning and Medicine: A Reader in the Philosophy of Medicine; and, with Marian Verkerk and Margaret Urban Walker, Naturalized Bioethics (Cambridge 2008). Her most recent book, Holding and Letting Go: The Social Practice of Personal Identities, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014.

Awards and distinctions

In addition to being named a Hastings Center Fellow and having been elected President of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, Lindemann awarded a NWO (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) grant (2004–2008), a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, and several grants from the University of Tennessee including the Haines-Morris grant. [2] Lindemann had also received a Distinguished Service Award from the American Society of Bioethics and is both a Fulbright scholar (1969) and a Woodrow Wilson fellow (1969).

Selected works

Chapter 1, "What Is Feminist Ethics?" reprinted in: Shafer-Landau, Russ (2010). The ethical life: fundamental readings in ethics and moral problems. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780195377699.
Chapter 1 also reprinted in: Feinberg, Joel; Shafer-Landau, Russ (2011). Reason and responsibility: readings in some basic problems of philosophy (14th ed.). Boston, Massachusetts: Wadsworth. ISBN   9781439046944.

Hilde Lindemann Nelson

Selected honors and grants

[2] Most recently, Hilde Lindemann served as President-Elect (2007–2008) and President (2008–2009) for the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities. She was elected a Hastings Center Fellow in October 2004.

Lindemann has received two NWO (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) grants, one of €30,000, plus €3,000 each from Michigan State University, Newcastle University, Uppsala University, and Lübeck University to build a network on the ethics of families and care (2013–2016). The other NWO grant (with Marian Verkerk and Margaret Urban Walker) of €25,000, plus the equivalent of €3,500 each from Michigan State University and Arizona State University, for an international collaboration to produce a bioethics whose moral epistemology and psychology are naturalized and whose ethical focus is on practices of responsibility (2004–2008).

She has also won awards such as the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities Distinguished Service Award (2003) and National Endowment for the Humanities grant to conduct a Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, entitled "Bioethics in Particular," $87,000. Project co-director (1999–2000). Lindemann was named a Fulbright scholar (1969) and a Woodrow Wilson fellow (1969).

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References

  1. 1 2 Lindemann, Hilde. "No ethics without feminism" (Interview). Interviewed by Richard Marshall. 3:AM Magazine. Archived from the original on 2016-04-22. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Curriculum Vitae of Hilde Lindemann". Michigan State University. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  3. ↑ "Editors Emeritæ". hypatia. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Feminist Ethics and Narrative Ethics | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy". www.iep.utm.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
  5. ↑ Dame, ENR // AgencyND // University of Notre (21 April 2015). "Holding and Letting Go: The Social Practice of Personal Identities // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame". ndpr.nd.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
  6. ↑ Moody, Harry (Jun 1, 1998). "James Lindemann Nelson and Hilde Lindemann Nelson, "Alzheimer's Answer to Hard Questions for Families" (Book Review)". The Journal of Value Inquiry. 32 (2): 283–285. doi:10.1023/A:1004266327020. S2CID   169871701.
  7. ↑ Lindemann, Hilde "Theoretical Resources for a Globalized Bioethics." Journal of Medical Ethics, (with Marian Verkerk)
  8. ↑ Lindemann, Hilde "Still Concerned." American Journal of Bioethics 10, no. 9 (2010): 46-49 (with Alice Dreger and Ellen Feder).
  9. ↑ Lindemann, Hilde "Autonomy, Beneficence, and Gezelligheid: Lessons in Moral Theory from the Dutch." Hastings Center Report 39, no. 5 (2009): 39-45
  10. ↑ Lindemann, Hilde "Holding One Another (Well, Wrongly, Clumsily) in a Time of Dementia." Metaphilosophy 40, nos. 3-4 (2009): 416-24. Reprinted in Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy, ed. Eva Feder Kittay and Licia Carlson (Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
  11. ↑ Lindemann, Hilde "'But I Could Never Have One': The Abortion Intuition and Moral Luck." Special Issue in Honor of Claudia Card. Hypatia 24, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 41-55.
  12. ↑ Lindemann, Hilde. Holding and Letting Go: The Social Practice of Personal Identities. Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012.
  13. ↑ Lindemann, Hilde. An Invitation to Feminist Ethics. San Francisco: McGraw-Hill, 2006. Chapter 1, "What Is Feminist Ethics?" reprinted in Russ Shafer-Landau, ed. The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010). Chapter 1 also reprinted in Joel Feinberg and Russ Shafer-Landau, ed., Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy, 14th ed. (Boston: Wadsworth, 2011)
  14. ↑ Lindemann, Hilde. Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. In Danish translation, Copenhagen: Gyldendal Uddannelse, in the Socialpaedagogisk Bibliotek series, 2003.
  15. ↑ Lindemann, Hilde. Alzheimer's: Answers to Hard Questions for Families. New York: Doubleday, 1996 (with James Lindemann Nelson). In Dutch translation, Amsterdam: De Arbeiderspers, 1998.
  16. ↑ Lindemann, Hilde. The Patient in the Family. New York: Routledge, 1995 (with James Lindemann Nelson)
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