Bioethics

Jonathan Moreno

Jonathan Moreno
Professor of Medical Ethics, History and Sociology of Science, and Philosophy
morenojd(at)mail.med.upenn.edu
Phone: 
(215) 898-7629
Ph.D., Washington University
Office Location: 
303 Cohen Hall
Appointments: 

David and Lyn Silfen University Professor Professor of Medical Ethics, History and Sociology of Science, and Philosophy

Research Interests: 
  • Medical Ethics
  • Science Policy
  • Philosophy of Science
    • Selected Publications: 

    Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense (2006)

    Ethical Guidelines for Innovative Surgery (2006)

    Is There an Ethicist in the House? On the Cutting Edge of Bioethics (2005)

    In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis (2003)

    Arthur Caplan

    Arthur Caplan
    Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics and Philosophy
    caplan (at) mail.med.upenn.edu
    Phone: 
    (215) 898-7136
    Ph.D. Columbia University
    Appointments: 

    Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics and Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania

    Chair, Department of Medical Ethics, University of Pennsylvania

    Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania

    Research Interests: 
  • transplantation research ethics
  • genetics
  • reproductive technologies
  • health policy
  • general bioethics
    • Selected Publications: 

    Taking ethics seriously in cosmetic dermatology”, Archives of Dermatology, 142, 12, 2006: 1641-2, (with Amy Newburger).

    “Consent and anonymisation in research involving biobanks: Serious barriers to an international framework”, EMBO Reports, 7, 2006: 661-6. (with Bernice Elger).

    “Creating a medical, legal and ethical framework for complex living kidney donors”, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 1: 2006: 1148-53 (with P.P. Reese, A. Kesselheim and R.D. Bloom)

    “Ethical issues surrounding forced, mandated, or coerced treatment”, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 31, 2, 2006: 117-120. “No method, thus madness?” Hastings Center Report, 2006:12-13.

     Center for Bioethics Homepage 

    Adrienne Martin

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    Assistant Professor of Philosophy
    adrm (at) sas.upenn.edu
    Ph.D. University of North Carolina

    http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~adrm/

    Research Interests: 

    I am most interested in what it is to be a moral agent. I am especially interested in moral deliberation and practical reasoning. In broadest terms, my work examines the relation between practical reasoning and our non-rational faculties, our rationally optional values and commitments, and our capacity to be self-determining or autonomous. Although I always aim to develop general theories at fairly high levels of abstraction, I carry out much this examination on the ground, so to speak, by analyzing the interplay between practical reasoning, non-rational faculties and values, and autonomy in the context of clinical care and research.

    Currently, I have two primary projects. First, I am writing a series a papers that asks what specific value commitments, if any, are presupposed by rational deliberation and action. Second, in another series of papers, I explore the interaction between the emotions and practical reasoning; I am particularly interested in hope, and how the exercise of imagination involved in hope influences, and is influenced by, practical reasoning.

    Drafts of some of these papers are available on my personal website (url above).

    Selected Publications: 

    "Hopes and Dreams," forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
    "Hope and Exploitation," Hastings Center Report, 38 (5): 49.
    "Tales Publicly Allowed," Hastings Center Report, 73(1): 33-40.
    “How to Argue for the Value of Humanity,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 87(1): 96-125.

    Anita L. Allen

    Anita L. Allen
    Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Philosophy
    aallen (at) law.upenn.edu
    Phone: 
    (215) 898-9035
    J.D. Harvard, Ph.D. Michigan
    Appointments: 

    Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy

    Research Interests: 
    • Privacy Law, Theory and Values
    • Legal Theory
    • Contemporary Ethics and Bioethics
    • Mental Illness
    • Accountability
    • Race Relations
    • Gender and the Law
    Selected Publications: 

    The New Ethics: A Tour of the 21st Century, Miramax Books 2004.

    Why Privacy Isn't Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability, Rowman and LIttlefield, 2003.

    Uneasy Access: Privacy for Women in a Free Society, Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.

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