Bernadette Tobin
{{Short description|Australian Catholic ethicist}}
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Bernadette Tobin {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO}} (born 1946) is an Australian Catholic ethicist and professor of philosophy. She is the daughter of political activist and journalist B.A. Santamaria.{{cite book |last=Henderson |first=Gerard |author-link=Gerard Henderson |date=2015 |title=Santamaria: A Most Unusual Man |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zp4bCgAAQBAJ |location=Melbourne |publisher=Melbourne University Publishing |pages=41–2, 306 |isbn=9780522868593}}{{cite journal |last1=Tobin |first1=Bernadette |date=2017 |title=B A Santamaria: His contribution to Australian politics |url=https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/ielapa.377943947036791 |journal=Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society |volume=38 |issue= |pages=68–73 |doi= |access-date=2021-08-11}}
Education
Tobin was educated at Genazzano College, Kew{{Cite web |date=2020-06-15|title=Genazzano Alumna Honoured |url=https://www.genazzano.vic.edu.au/news/genazzano-alumna-honoured|access-date=2021-08-11|website=Genazzano|language=en}} and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Melbourne in 1968. She also completed a Masters of Education (1977) and a Master of Arts (1983) at the same institution.{{Cite web|last=Blom|first=Suzanne|date=2020-08-13|title=Queen's Birthday Honours at Melbourne|url=https://www.unimelb.edu.au/alumni/news/queens-birthday-honours-at-melbourne|access-date=2021-04-03|website=Alumni & Giving|language=en}}
Tobin completed her doctoral degree at Cambridge University in politics.{{Cite web|date=2018-09-21|title=Faith At Work: Bioethics in the 21st Century|url=https://www.ccercatholic.org.au/faith-at-work-with-bernadette-tobin-brave-new-world-bioethics-in-the-21st-century/|access-date=2021-04-03|website=CER|language=en-AU}}
Career
Tobin began her career as a teacher. She taught philosophy at Mercy Teachers' College, Melbourne and English at Tottenham Technical School.{{Cite web|title=Staff of the Plunkett Centre|url=https://www.acu.edu.au/about-acu/institutes-academies-and-centres/plunkett-centre-for-ethics/staff|access-date=2021-04-03|website=www.acu.edu.au|language=en}}
Tobin is a founding director of The Plunkett Centre. The centre was established in 1992 as a joint venture between St Vincent's Hospital and the Australian Catholic University.{{Cite web|title=Plunkett Centre for Ethics|url=https://www.acu.edu.au/about-acu/institutes-academies-and-centres/plunkett-centre-for-ethics|access-date=2021-04-03|website=www.acu.edu.au|language=en}} Tobin was appointed a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University in 1996. She held this position until 2002.{{Cite web|date=2020-03-12|title=AO Media Notes 2016|url=http://old.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/qb/qb2016/nS_29ods1A/Media%20Notes%20-%20AO.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200312190945/http://old.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/qb/qb2016/nS_29ods1A/Media%20Notes%20-%20AO.pdf|archive-date=12 March 2020}}
Tobin is an honorary member of the medical faculty at the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney through the clinical schools at St Vincent's and the Children's Hospital, Westmead respectively. She has been a featured speaker at the Wheeler Centre speaking about faith, religion and spirituality.{{Cite web|title=Bernadette Tobin|url=https://www.wheelercentre.com/people/bernadette-tobin|access-date=2021-04-03|website=The Wheeler Centre|language=en}}
Tobin has served on the Australian Health Ethics Committee and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research ethics committee. As chair of the St John's College, University of Sydney council between 2013 and 2020, she oversaw protracted negotiations that led to the new St John's College Act 2018.{{cite news |date=2018-11-09 |title=Chair of Council welcomes implementation of new St John's College Act |url=https://www.stjohnscollege.edu.au/2018/11/09/chair-of-council-welcomes-implementation-of-new-st-johns-college-act/ |work=St John's College News |location=Sydney |access-date=2021-08-11}} In 2017, Tobin was appointed as a life member of the Pontifical Academy.{{Cite web|title=The Academicians|url=http://www.academyforlife.va/content/pav/en/the-academics/corresponding.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-03|website=www.academyforlife.va|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170927000057/http://www.academyforlife.va/content/pav/en/the-academics/corresponding.html |archive-date=27 September 2017 }}
Personal life
Tobin is married to Terence Tobin, who is a former Chancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia.{{Cite web |date=|title=Associate Members|url=https://13stjames.net.au/associates/ |website=13th Floor St James Hall |access-date=2021-08-03}} As close friends of George Pell, the Tobins visited him frequently in prison and assisted with his communication with lawyers.{{cite book |author-last=Pell |author-first=George |title=Prison Journal, Volume Two: The State Court Rejects the Appeal, 14 July 2019–30 November 2019 | publisher=Ignatius Press |type= paperback|location=San Francisco | year=2021 |pages=30, 108, 116, 127 |isbn=9781621644507}}
Awards
In the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours, Tobin was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for her work in bioethics, and public advisory and research councils.
In 2018, Tobin was made a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, alongside her husband Terence Tobin.{{Cite web|author=Staff Writers|date=2018-03-09|title=Papal Awards for Seven Sydney Catholics|url=https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/papal-awards-for-seven-sydney-catholics/|access-date=2021-04-03|website=The Catholic Weekly|language=en-AU}} The papal award was for her service in ethics and education.
Publications
- {{Cite web|last=Tobin|first=Dr Bernadette|date=2020-03-06|title=Dr Bernadette Tobin: IVF case answers deep questions|url=https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/dr-bernadette-tobin-ivf-case-answers-deep-questions/|access-date=2021-04-03|website=The Catholic Weekly|language=en-AU}}
- {{Cite web|last=Tobin|first=Dr Bernadette|date=2020-03-25|title=Ethics for Australian healthcare in the midst of a pandemic|url=https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/ethics-for-australian-healthcare-in-the-midst-of-a-pandemic/|access-date=2021-04-03|website=The Catholic Weekly|language=en-AU}}
- {{Cite web|last=Tobin|first=Dr Bernadette|date=2019-11-13|title=Fragmenting motherhood: 3-parent children, IVF and the future|url=https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/fragmenting-motherhood-3-parent-children-ivf-and-the-future/|access-date=2021-04-03|website=The Catholic Weekly|language=en-AU}}
- Guest editor (with Steve Matthews) of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (2016)
- Is it justifiable to compel performance by a doctor in violation of conscience? Australasian Catholic Record, January 2019
- Female Genital Mutilation and the role of health-care practitioners (with David Isaacs), Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 53, 2017
- Human vulnerability in medical contexts (with Steve Matthews). Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 37, 2016.
- When doctors and parents disagree. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 50, 2014.
- Religious Perspectives on Umbilical Cord Blood Banking (with Jordens, C et al.) Journal of Law and Medicine, 19; 2012.
- Spinal muscular atrophy: do the benefits of ventilation compensate for its burdens? (with Gray, K; Isaacs, D; Kilham, H;) Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 49, 2013.
- {{cite journal |date=2005 |title=Australian consequentialism: An Australian critique |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/TOBACA |journal=Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=165–173 |doi=10.1007/s11017-005-3974-z |access-date=2021-08-15|last1=Tobin |first1=Bernadette |pmid=16048067 |s2cid=34263316 |url-access=subscription }}
- {{cite journal |date=1989 |title=Richard Peters' theory of moral development |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1989.tb00621.x |journal=Journal of Philosophy of Education |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=15–27 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-9752.1989.tb00621.x |access-date=2021-08-15|last1=Tobin |first1=Bernadette M. |url-access=subscription }}
- {{cite journal |date=1989 |title=An Aristotelian theory of moral development |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1989.tb00207.x |journal=Journal of Philosophy of Education |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=195–211 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-9752.1989.tb00207.x |access-date=2021-08-15|last1=Tobin |first1=Bernadette M. |url-access=subscription }}
- {{cite journal |date=1986 |title=Development in virtues |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1986.tb00127.x |journal=Journal of Philosophy of Education |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=201–214 |doi= 10.1111/j.1467-9752.1986.tb00127.x|access-date=2021-08-15|last1=Tobin |first1=Bernadette M. |url-access=subscription }}
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