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College of Arts and Sciences Philosophy Faculty & Staff

Alison ReiheldAlison N.C. Reiheld

Associate Professor
Peck Hall, Room 3214
areihel@siue.edu / 618-650-2574
PhD Michigan State University, 2010

Special Position: Major Advisor 

Courses Taught

  • Philosophy 320: Ethics 
  • Philosophy 321: Ethics in the Medical Community
  • Philosophy 323: Engineering Ethics
  • PHIL/WMST 343: Feminist Theory
  • PHIL/WMST 344: Women & Values
  • HONS 320: Honors Seminar: Pain & Suffering (with Dr. Keith Hecht, SIUE School of Pharmacy)

Research Interests

Dr. Reiheld specializes in ethics and value theory, with a focus on medical ethics and feminist philosophy. In addition to her research on the ethics of memory, Dr. Reiheld's work covers a broad array of issues--disability, gender, transgender, reproduction, civility--unified by concerns about how power operates upon vulnerable persons in social institutions, including health care settings. 

Representative Publications

"Patient complains of...: How medicalization mediates power and justice." International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 3(1): 72-98. 2010. 

"The Event That Was Nothing: Miscarriage as a Liminal Event." Journal of Social Philosophy 46(1): 9-26. 2015

"Rightly or for Ill: The Ethics of Individual Memory." Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 28(4): 377-410. 2018.

You can find her CV, including active links to most of her publications, here.

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