College of Arts and Sciences

Education:

• Dual-title PhD, Philosophy and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Penn State University, 2022
• MA, Philosophy, Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Georgia State University, 2017
• BA, Government and Latin American Studies, Smith College, 2015

Research Interests:

• Feminist bioethics
• Care ethics
• Feminist philosophy
• Philosophy of technology

Bio:

Dr. Gary specializes in feminist philosophy and bioethics, with a focus on care work and technology. Before coming to Drexel, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Hastings Center, where she is now a Presidential Fellow and continues to collaborate on projects at the intersection of care ethics and emerging technologies. Her research has appeared in Philosophy Compass, Bioethics, The Hastings Center Report, and IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Her first book, The Limits of Care: Making Feminist Sense of Technology Relations, is under contract with Oxford University Press. Alongside Joel Michael Reynolds, she co-edited the scholarly volume Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies (Routledge 2024). She is also co-editor of the scholarly blog of IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.

Selected Publications:

• Gary, Mercer. 2023. “Relational Approaches in Bioethics: A Guide to the Difference,” Bioethics (forthcoming).
• Gary, Mercer. 2022. “From Care Ethics to Pluralist Care Theory: The State of the Field,” Philosophy Compass 17, no. 4.
• Gary, Mercer with Sarah Walser (first author) and Mark Stephens. 2022. “A Qualitative Study Exploring Self-Directed Learning in a Medical Humanities Curriculum,” Research & Humanities in Medical Education 9, 40-47.
• Gary, Mercer. 2021. “Care Robots, Crises of Capitalism, and the Limits of Human Caring,” International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 14, no.1, 19-48.
• Gary, Mercer with Nancy Berlinger. 2020. “Interdependent Citizens: The Ethics of Care in Pandemic Recovery,” The Hastings Center Report 50, no. 3, 56-58.