Dr Denise Russell

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Denise Russell is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Philosophy Program (SELPL). Her former position was Associate Professor and Head of Department at the University of Sydney. Her research interests include: environmental philosophy, animals and ethics, epistemology, philosophy of psychology/psychiatry and feminist philosophy.

Denise is the founding editor of the journal Animal Ethics: Philosophical and ethical issues related to human/animal interactions and author of the book Women, Madness and Medicine published by Polity Press in 1995, reprinted 1998. She has published numerous articles in her research areas. Most recent most articles are:

'Psychiatric Diagnoses as a Precusor to Research Difficulties in Mental Health', Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol 9, No. 1, 2007.

‘Aboriginal-Makassan interactions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in northern Australia and contemporary sea rights claims' Aboriginal Studies, No. 1, 2004, 3-17

‘Piracy on the high seas: an analysis of Bratton's sea ethic' Ethics and the Environment, Vol 12, No.2, Fall/Winter, 2007.

Denise is currently working on a book entitled ‘Who Owns the Oceans' which deals with such issues as piracy, indigenous sea rights, sea gypsies, over-expoitation of fish and whale rights in an attempt to develop a sea ethics and critical appraisal of the law of the sea.

She is also working on another project related to the use of animals in scientific research with Melissa Boyde.

E-Mail: deniser@uow.edu.au

Phone: +61 2 4221 3887

Last reviewed: 11 June, 2008