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Background and contributions to the field

Rachel Ankeny's scholarly work crosses several disciplinary areas. In bioethics, her published articles examine ethical issues in transplantation policy and process, live organ donation, and genetic testing and screening. In the history and philosophy of science, she has done work on the roles of models and case-based reasoning in science, model organisms (particularly the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans), reductionism and disease, and the history of contemporary life sciences. She currently serves as editor for bioethics and philosophy of medicine for the international journal Metascience; advisory board member, grants committee chair, and co-country representative for the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB); a member of the Ethical and Social Issues Committee of the Human Genetics Society of Australia; on the conference planning committee for the 2004 World Congress of Bioethics (International Association of Bioethics) to be held in Sydney; and a member of Ethics of the Clinical Practice Subcommittee of the Ethics Committee, Central Sydney Area Health Service. She also is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the History of Biology, Endeavour, and the Kluwer series Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, and a reviewer for several other journals and presses in HPS and bioethics.

Dr Ankeny serves: as a referee for the Science and Technology Studies Program and for the Ethics and Value Studies Program of the U.S. National Science Foundation; an editorial board member for the Journal of the History of Biology, Endeavour, and the Kluwer series 'Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science' (responsibility areas: philosophy of biomedical sciences, bioethics, and environmental sciences); a member of the academic board overseeing the transition of the New Zealand Bioethics Journal to an international publication; and the commissioning editor for philosophy/history of medicine and bioethics for Metascience. She has acted for a reviewer for Harvard University Press, University of Pittsburgh Press; Biology and Philosophy; The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy; Medical Journal of Australia; Nature Review Genetics; Philosophy of Science; Science and Education; and Social Studies of Science.