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Course Faculty (June 1-5, 2009) |
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Tom Beauchamp, Ph.D., Professor of Philosoply and a Senior
Scholar at the Kennedy Institute
of Ethics. In 1976, he wrote the
bulk of the Belmont Report. He
is a noted scholar of the 18th
c. Scottish philosopher, David
Hume. With James F. Childress,
PhD, Tom authored the seminal
work (and the IBC course book),
Principles of Biomedical Ethics. His
research interests are in the history
of modern philosophy and practical
ethics, in particular biomedical and
business ethics.
Laura J. Bishop, Ph.D., Research
Associate at the National Reference
for Bioethics Literature, Kennedy
Institute of Ethics, has research
interests that include the role of the
family in medical decisionmaking,
bioethics education in secondary
schools, resources for teaching ethics,
and curriculum development.
Alisa Carse, Ph.D., is an Associate
Professor of Philosophy at
Georgetown University, and Faculty
Affiliate of the Kennedy Institute of
Ethics. Her teaching and research are
centered in moral theory, social and
political theory, moral psychology,
and gender theory. She has written
widely on vulnerability and human
flourishing, care and justice.
James F. Childress, Ph.D., is the
Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics
at the University of Virginia, where
he directs the Institute for Practical
Ethics. He is the author of numerous
articles and several books, including
Principles of Biomedical Ethics
with Tom Beauchamp, Practical
Reasoning in Bioethics, Who Should
Decide? Paternalism in Health Care
and Priorities in Biomedical Ethics. He
was a member of the presidentiallyappointed
National Bioethics
Advisory Commission.
Vanessa Northington Gamble, M.D., Ph.D., is a physician and
noted scholar in the field of medical
humanities. She developed one
of the first courses in the country
to explore the history of race and
American medicine and public
health. In 1997, Dr. Gamble chaired
the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Legacy Committee, and in 1999,
Dr. Gamble was appointed head
of the Association of American
Medical Colleges’ (AAMC) Division of
Community and Minority Programs.
She served as deputy director of
the Center for Health Disparities
Solut ions at Johns Hopk ins
University’s Bloomberg School of
Medicine, and in September 2007,
Dr. Gamble was named University
Professor of Medical Humanities
at George Washington University
in Washington, DC. She is the first
woman to hold the prestigious
endowed faculty position.
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Ph.D.is Professor of Women's Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Her fields of study are feminist theory, American literature, and disability studies. Her scholarly and professional activities are devoted to developing the field of disability studies in the humanities and in women's studies. She is the author of Staring: How We Look (Oxford UP, forthcoming 2008), Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Literature and Culture (Columbia UP, 1997); editor of Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (NYU Press, 1996), and co-editor of Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities (MLA Press, 2002). She is currently writing a book called Cure or Kill: The Cultural Logic of Euthanasia, which traces eugenic thought through American literature.
John Gluck, Ph.D., is a Professor
Emeritus of Psychology, University
of New Mexico, and a Faculty
Affiliate of the Kennedy Institute
of Ethics. As Senior Bioethicist
at the Health Sciences Institute
for Ethics, he taught nursing and
medical students for many years
concerning topics of professional
ethics, research, and clinical ethics.
Dr. Gluck has published widely on
the topics of the effects of early
rearing on behavioral development,
research and clinical ethics.
Loretta Kopelman, Ph.D., is a
Professor at the Brody School of
Medicine at East Carolina University,
where she founded and chaired its
Department of Medical Humanities.
She is a Faculty Affiliate of the
Kennedy Institute of Ethics. She
was founding president of the
American Society for Bioethics and
Humanities and a member of the
Institute of Medicine’s Committee
on Research with Children. She
has published widely, including
topics in bioethics, medical ethics,
the rights of retarded individuals,
research ethics, philosophy and
medicine, the fair allocation of
health care resources, and especially
on children’s rights and welfare.
Rebecca Kukla, Ph.D., is a Professor
of Philosophy at the University of
South Florida, and also Professor of
Obstetrics and Gynecology and a
core faculty member in the graduate
program in Medical Humanities
and Bioethics at USF. She received a
Greenwall Postdoctoral Fellowship in
Bioethics and Health Policy at Johns
Hopkins University in 2005. She is the
current co-coordinator of the Feminist
Approaches to Bioethics Network, a
scholarly society with members in
thirty countries. Her research interests
include philosophical and cultural
studies of medicine, epistemology,
eighteenth century philosophy, and
feminist philosophy.
Maggie O. Little, Ph.D., the IBC
Course Director and Associate
Professor of Philosophy, has graduate
degrees from the University of
Oxford and UC-Berkeley. She has
published on a broad range of topics
in ethics, from moral epistemology
and moral realism to applied issues
in bioethics. She has written on
surrogate motherhood, abortion,
method in moral theory, and the
objectivity of ethics. Her publications
include Abortion, Intimacy and the
“Duty” to Gestate, and she is co-editor
of a book with Brad Hooker, Moral
Particularism.
Debra J.H. Mathews, Ph.D., M.A., is the Assistant Director for Science Programs for the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, with a secondary appointment in the Institute of Genetic Medicine, and as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine. She completed the Greenwall Fellowship in Bioethics and Health Policy, which is jointly administered by JHU and Georgetown Universities. As a Greenwall Fellow, she worked at the Genetics and Public Policy Center, in Washington, DC, and the US Department of Health and Human Services. At JHU’s Berman Institute, Dr. Mathews oversees the Stem Cell Policy and Ethics program and the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences, as well as other initiatives in policy and ethics related to biomedical research and emerging technologies, including genetics, synthetic biology and nanotechnology. Dr. Mathews's research interests focus on the intersection of science, ethics and public policy.
Edmund Pellegrino, M.D., is
Professor Emeritus of Medicine
and Medical Ethics at the
Georgetown University Medical
Center. In fall 2005, Dr. Pellegrino
was appointed as the Chair of the
President’s Council on Bioethics.
Dr. Pellegrino has authored over
550 published items in medical
science, philosophy, and ethics
and is a member of numerous
editorial boards. He is the author
or co-author of 19 books, and the
founding editor of the Journal of
Medicine and Philosophy.
Madison Powers, J.D., D.Phil., is Professor of Philosophy and
Director of the Kennedy Institute
of Ethics at Georgetown University.
Research interests include political,
legal, and moral philosophy with a
special interest in the intersection
of law, ethics, and health policy. Dr.
Powers has published numerous
journal articles and book chapters
on a variety of topics in normative
and practical philosophy. He has
participated in many private and
governmental advisory bodies
including the Recombinant DNA
Advisory Committee (RAC) for the
NIH. He is co-author with Ruth
Faden of Social Justice: The Moral
Foundations of Public Health and
Health Care Policy.
Karen Stohr, Ph.D., is Assistant
Professor of Philosophy at
Georgetown University. Karen’s
main research area is ethics, with a
focus on Aristotelian virtue ethics
and Kantian ethics. She is also
interested in bioethics, particularly in
the Catholic tradition. Her research
concerns the virtue of practical
wisdom, moral responsibility and
moral luck, the Kantian duty of
beneficence, and moral obligations
to improve the moral perfection
of others.
Carol Taylor, R.N., Ph.D., is Director of the Center for Clinical
Bioethics at the GU Medical Center.
Experienced in caring for patients
who are chronically and critically
ill and their families, Carol now
works closely with health care
professionals who are exploring the
ethical dimensions of their practice.
She serves as an ethics consultant
to systems and professional
organizations. Her research
interests include professional
and organizational ethics, and
healthcare decisionmaking.
Robert M. Veatch, Ph.D., is Professor of Medical Ethics at
Georgetown University. He writes
extensively on medical ethics,
including pharmacy and nursing
ethics. He is the Senior Editor of the
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
and the Newsletter on Ethics and
Intellectual Disability. He frequently
serves as an expert witness in cases
of medical ethics. He has worked
extensively in areas of death and
dying, human experimentation,
and organ transplantation. Among
many other books, he is the author
of Transplantation Ethics and The
Basics of Bioethics.
LeRoy Walters, Ph.D., is the
Joseph P. Kennedy Professor of
Christian Ethics at the Kennedy
Institute of Ethics. He is a former
director of the Institute, and has
special interests in ethical issues
in eugenics, human genetics, and
international stem cell research
policies. He teaches courses on
“Ethics and Human Genetics”,
“Eugenics and Ethics,” and “Ethics
and the Holocaust.” His most recent
books include co-authoring with
Tom Beauchamp, Contemporary
Issues in Bioethics, and The Ethics
of Human Gene Therapy with Julie
Gage Palmer.
David Wendler, Ph.D., is head of the
Unit on Vulnerable Populations in
the Department of Clinical Bioethics
at the NIH. He is a philosopher
trained in the philosophy of science,
and has been a consultant to
numerous organizations, including
the Council of International
Organizations of Medical Sciences,
the American College of Cardiology,
the National Institute on Aging,
and the National Institute on Drug
Abuse. He is currently a member of
the IRB of the National Institute on
Drug Abuse. His current research
focuses on clinical research with
individuals who are unable to
provide informed consent.
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