Scholarly research
“Epigenetic Responsibility and Foreseeable Risk.” Journal of Applied Philosophy 43: 451-470 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1002/japp.70068
Courtney McMahon & Catherine Mills. “Against epigenetic responsibility: The problem of causality in ‘foetal programming’ science.” Bioethics 39 (1), 127-136 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.13350
“Constructing maternal responsibility: Narratives of motherly love and maternal blame in epigenetics research.” New Genetics and Society 43 (1) (2024). https://doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2024.2367206
Current research interests
Reproductive responsibility
Ethical implications of epigenetics and other postgenomic sciences
Feminist, gender, and disability theory
Responsibility and structural injustice
Ethics of ARTs
Feminist ethical theory especially the ethics of care and empathy
Vulnerability and relational concepts of autonomy
Philosophy of pregnancy and philosophical questions around prenatal harm