Selected Publications

Books

Meghani, Z. (editor). (2015). Women Migrant Workers: Ethical, Political and Legal Problems (Routledge International Studies of Women and Place series (Routledge))
https://www.routledge.com/Women-Migrant-Workers-Ethical-Political-and-Legal-Problems/Meghani/p/book/9781138546332

Brody, H., Meghani, Z., and Greenwald, K. (editors). (2009). Michael Ryan’s Writings on Medical Ethics (Philosophy and Medicine: Classics of Medical Ethics series, (Springer))
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789048130481

Articles and Book Chapters

Meghani, Z.  (2022). Regulation of genetically engineered (GE) mosquitoes as a public health tool: a public health ethics analysis. Globalization and Health 18, 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-021-00760-x

Meghani, Z. (2021). Regulations Matter: Epistemic Monopoly, Domination, Patents, and the Public Interest. Philosophy & Technology, 1-26.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-021-00467-2

Meghani, Z. (2021). The Impact of Vertical Public Health Initiatives on Gendered Familial Care Work: Public Health and Ethical Issues. Critical Public Health.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09581596.2021.1908960

Meghani, Z. (2020). The Hard Sell of Genetically Engineered (GE) Mosquitoes with Gene Drives as the Solution to Malaria: Ethical, Political, Epistemic, and Epidemiological Issues in Global Health Governance. The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science (pp. 435-457). Routledge.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429507731-42/hard-sell-genetically-engineered-ge-mosquitoes-gene-drives-solution-malaria-zahra-meghani?context=ubx&refId=c71da627-4290-4a1b-8bf1-a964153aecf6

Meghani, Z. (2019). Autonomy of Nations and Indigenous Peoples and the Environmental Release of Genetically Engineered Animals with Gene Drives. Global Policy.
https://philpapers.org/archive/MEGAON.pdf

Meghani, Z., & Boëte, C. (2018). Genetically engineered mosquitoes, Zika and other arboviruses, community engagement, costs, and patents: Ethical issues. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 12(7), e0006501.
https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0006501

Meghani, Z., & Kuzma, J. (2018). Regulating animals with gene drive systems: lessons from the regulatory assessment of a genetically engineered mosquito. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 5(sup1), S203-S222.

Meghani, Z. (2017). Genetically Engineered Animals, Drugs, and Neoliberalism: The Need for a New Biotechnology Regulatory Policy Framework. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 30(6), 715-743. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/phl_facpubs/20/

Meghani, Z. (2017). Regulation of Consumer Products. In Consumer Perception of Product Risks and Benefits, eds. G. Emilien, R. Weitkunat and F. Luedicke. Springer
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-50530-5_26

Meghani, Z. (2015) Women on the move, Women Migrant Worker: Ethical, Political and Legal Problems (Routledge International Studies of Women and Place series) Routledge

Meghani, Z. (2015) Trapped in a Web of Immigration and Employment Laws: Female Undocumented Home Health Workers in the US, Women Migrant Worker: Ethical, Political and Legal Problems (Routledge International Studies of Women and Place series) Routledge

Meghani, Z. (2014) “Justice for the “Other” Caregivers: Addressing the Epistemic Dimension of Injustice,” Labor and global justice: Essays on the ethics of labor practices in the age of globalization, eds. Mary C Rawlinson, Wim Vandekerckhove, Ronald M.S. Commers, and Tim Johnston. Lexington Books

Meghani, Z. (2014). Risk assessment of genetically modified food and neoliberalism: An argument for democratizing the regulatory review protocol of the Food and Drug Administration. Journal of agricultural and environmental ethics, 27(6), 967-989.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10806-014-9511-1

Meghani, Z. (2013). The ethics of medical tourism: From the United Kingdom to India seeking medical care. International Journal of Health Services, 43(4), 779-800.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2190/HS.43.4.k

Meghani, Z. (2011). A robust, particularist ethical assessment of medical tourism. Developing World Bioethics, 11(1), 16-29.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1471-8847.2010.00282.x

Meghani, Z., & Kuzma, J. (2011). The “revolving door” between regulatory agencies and industry: A problem that requires reconceptualizing objectivity. Journal of agricultural and environmental ethics, 24(6), 575-599.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10806-010-9287-x

Meghani, Z. (2009) The US’ Food and Drug Administration, Normativity of Risk Assessment, GMOs, and American Democracy. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 22 (2): 125-39

Meghani, Z. and Eckenwiler, L. (2009) Care for the Caregivers?: Transnational Justice and Undocumented Non-Citizen Care Workers. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 2(1): 77-101

Meghani, Z. and de Melo-Martín, I. (2009) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Evaluation of the Safety of Animal Clones: A Failure to Recognize the Normativity of Risk Assessment Projects. Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 29: 9-17

Brody, H., Meghani, Z., and Greenwald, K. (editors). (2009) Introduction (with Howard Brody and Kimberly Greenwald) in Michael Ryan’s Writings on Medical Ethics (Philosophy and Medicine: Classics of Medical Ethics series. Springer

Meghani, Z. (2008) Values, Technologies, and Epistemology. Agriculture and Human Values 25: 1 (2008), 25-34

Meghani, Z. (2005). Of sex, nationalities and populations: The construction of menstruation as a patho-physiology. Menstruation: A Cultural History, 130-148.