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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

Bethany Johnson

September 28, 2018 by Johnson Bethany
department: Communication Studies

Bethany JohnsonResearch Affiliate Faculty
Department of Communication Studies

I have co-authored a book with Dr. Quinlan (2019) on social media-based health technology as they intersect ideas of “the good mother” and “the medical expert.”

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keywords: genderhealth systems and organizationswomen’s reproductive health

Dr. Heather Perry

September 28, 2018 by Heather Perry
department: History

Heather PerryAssociate Professor
Department of History

I am a historian of medicine, health, and the body with a particular focus on the way that modern warfare impacts the health of both soldiers and civilians.[read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] In particular, I enjoy researching how warfare has impacted society, culture, medicine, and science in European history from the late nineteenth century through the world wars.  My publications examine the history of disabled veterans, the development of rehabilitation medicine and artificial limb technology, public health education and exhibitions, and the history of nutritional science.  I am currently working on two projects: The first examines food insecurity and population health during the First World War; the second examines the internment of enemy aliens in WWI America.  I teach courses on Modern German history, History of the First World War, History of Medicine and Health, War and Medicine, and Epidemics.
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keywords: disability medicine and rehabilitationdisabled veteransfood and nutritiongenderhealth and societyhistory of medicine and health

Dr. Margaret Quinlan

September 28, 2018 by Margaret Quinlan
department: Communication Studies

Margaret QuinlanAssociate Professor
Department of Communication Studies

My primary scholarly interests lie in the intersections between health, medical expertise and organizational communication. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] Drawing on narrative and feminist sensibilities, my work focuses on a range of social justice issues that affect marginalized populations including disability-rights and gender inequities (e.g., infertility, practitioner-patient communication). My research strengths are in interpretive/ethnographic, critical and rhetorical methodologies. I have published in: Health Communication, Journal of Holistic Nursing, Women’s Reproductive Health, The Journal of Men’s Studies, Sexuality and Culture, Women & Language, and Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning. From my ethnographic research, I produced two PBS documentaries in a regional Emmy award-winning series, Courage of Creativity: Creative Abundance (Co-Producer, with PBS) Beautiful Remedy (Associate Producer, with PBS), and Acoustics of Care (Co-Producer). My forthcoming book, published through Rutgers University Press with Bethany Johnson is titled, You’re doing it wrong! Mothering, media, and medical expertise (2019). For more information and to view documentary clips and research-informed infertility support cards, see: https://johnsonquinlanresearch.com/
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keywords: genderhealth systems and organizationswomen’s reproductive health

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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