Jasmine Gunkel

Assistant Professor

Normative and Applied Ethics (especially Bioethics, Animal Ethics, and AI Ethics), Feminist Philosophy, Social/Political Philosophy

BA University of California Davis; Ph.D. University of Southern California

E-mail: jgunkel@uwo.ca 
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I work mostly in ethics, social philosophy, and feminist philosophy. Much of my research focuses on intimacy. I think about what it is, why our intimate rights are so important, and how this should shape our behavior and policies. I explore, for instance, how we should regulate intimate labor and whether it’s appropriate to develop “pseudointimate” AI. While completing my postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, I thought a lot about intimacy in medicine, and how this shapes the obligations of researchers, doctors and nurses, and insurers. I also work on other issues in bioethics, social philosophy of language, AI ethics, and animal ethics.

Recent Publications

Articles

Supported Decision Making for All” (forthcoming). Jasmine Gunkel, David Wasserman, and Leslie Francis. Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics.

Xenotransplantation: Injustice, Harm, and Alternatives for Addressing the Organ Crisis” (forthcoming), Jasmine Gunkel and Frank Miller. Hastings Center Report.

Intimacy, Vulnerability, and the Imperfect Art of Patient-Centered Self-Disclosure” (forthcoming). Annals of Family Medicine.

The Overlooked Risk of Intimate Violation in Research: No Perianal Sampling without Consent” (2024). American Journal of Bioethics 24(4): 118-120.

What is Intimacy?” (2024).  Journal of Philosophy 121(8). 

The Doctor Will Polygraph You Now: Ethical Concerns with Clinical AI for Social Behavior Verification” (2024).  James Anibal, Jasmine Gunkel, et al. Npj (Nature Portfolio Journal) Health Systems. 

Simulated Misuse of Large Language Models and Clinical Credit Systems” (2024). James Anibal, Hannah Hugh, Jasmine Gunkel, Susan Gregurick, and Bradford Wood. Npj (Nature Portfolio Journal) Digital Health 7(317). 

Pleasures of the Flesh” (2023). Social Theory and Practice 49(1): 79-103. 

Intimacy, Illness, and Forced Gestation” (2022). Blog of the American Philosophical Association.