Christine Overall

{{Short description|Canadian philosopher}}

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Christine Overall FRSC (born 1949) is a Canadian philosopher specialising in feminist theory and applied ethics. She currently holds a Research Chair at Queen's University.{{cite web|url=http://www.queensu.ca/philosophy/People/Faculty/overallc.html|title=Department of Philosophy – Christine Overall|publisher=Queen's University|accessdate=17 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140317051014/http://www.queensu.ca/philosophy/People/Faculty/overallc.html|archive-date=17 March 2014|url-status=dead}} Her books include Aging, Death, and Human Longevity: A Philosophical Inquiry, which was awarded the 2006 Abbyann D. Lynch Medal in Bioethics, and Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate.{{cite web|url=http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/04/04/essay-christine-overall-why-have-children|title=Essay on Christine Overall, "Why Have Children?"|last=McLemee|first=Scott|date=4 April 2012|publisher=Inside HigherEd|accessdate=17 March 2014}} In 1998, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.{{cite web|url=http://rsc-src.ca/en/search-fellows?keywords_44=&first_name=&last_name=Overall&display_name=&election_year_21=&academy_25=All&division_24=All&discipline_23=All&is_deceased=0&sort_by=last_name&sort_order=ASC|title=The Royal Society of Canada|publisher=Royal Society of Canada|accessdate=17 March 2014}}