Philosophy

Dr. Ruth Groenhout

September 28, 2018 by Ruth Groenhout
department: Philosophy

Distinguished Professor of Health Ethics
Department of Philosophy

My primary areas of research in healthcare ethics focus on gender, health systems and organizations, and health policy. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] I have a book coming out in 2019 that uses an ethics of care as a framework for analyzing policy and systems in health care. Other books include Connected Lives: Human Nature and an Ethics of Care, Transforming Care, Bioethics: A Reformed Look at Life and Death Choices, and Philosophy, Feminism, Faith. Recent articles include “Beauvoir and the Biological Body” in the Blackwell Companion to Simone de Beauvoir, “Of Medicine and Monsters: Rationing and an Ethics of Care” in Care Ethics and Political Theory and “Virtue and a Feminist Ethics of Care” in Virtues and Their Vices.[/read]

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keywords: ethicsgenderhealth policyhealth systems and organizations

Dr. Andrea Pitts

September 28, 2018 by Andrea J. Pitts
department: Philosophy

Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy

My research interests include social epistemology, critical philosophy of race, feminist philosophy, Latin American and U.S. Latinx philosophy, and critical prison studies.[read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] My research focuses on three distinct, but interrelated areas: 1) how speech and linguistic forms of communication impact processes of racialization and structural racism; 2) the political and ethical intersections of criminalization, health, and race; and 3) post-revolutionary Mexican existentialism, feminism, and philosophy of culture. Some of my recent articles can be found in IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Radical Philosophy Review, and Inter-American Journal of Philosophy. At UNC Charlotte, I have taught courses (graduate and undergraduate) on feminist theory, prison abolitionism, decolonial theory, and social epistemology. For more information, visit: https://pages.charlotte.edu/andrea-pitts/.[/read]

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keywords: biomedical ethicscritical prison studiesphilosophy of race and gender

Dr. Lisa Rasmussen

September 28, 2018 by Lisa Rasmussen
department: Philosophy

Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy

I earned a PhD in Philosophy (with a focus on bioethics) from Rice University in 2003. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] I began working at UNC Charlotte in 2006, and am currently Associate Professor in the Philosophy department. One of my main research areas is research ethics, particularly research misconduct and federal regulatory approaches to ethical issues in research. I am presently working on a book manuscript on unregulated human subject research, and write and teach in the areas of healthcare ethics and ethics consultation. I serve on a hospital ethics committee for Atrium Healthcare and as Editor of the book series Philosophy and Medicine.[/read]

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Dr. Shannon Sullivan

September 28, 2018 by Shannon Sullivan
department: Philosophy

Professor
Department of Philosophy

I am Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Philosophy and Health Psychology at UNC Charlotte. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] I teach and write in the intersections of feminist philosophy, critical philosophy of race, American pragmatism, and continental philosophy. I am author of Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism and Feminism (2001), Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege (2006), Good White People: The Problem with Middle Class White Anti-Racism (2014), and The Physiology of Sexist and Racist Oppression (2015). I also am co-editor of four books including Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance (2007) and Feminist Interpretations of William James (2015).

Good White People was named a 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title and a Ms. Magazine Must-Read Feminist Book of 2014. It also was awarded The Society of Professors of Education 2016 Outstanding Book Award.

Currently I am finishing a monograph called White Privilege as part of Polity Press’ new general readership series, THINK, and I also am working on an edited scholarly book on Philosophy in/of the South.

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