2020 AAAS Annual Meeting I Death in the 21st Century

Dr. Malia Fullerton participated in a panel titled "Death in the 21st Century: What is Left Behind" at the 2020 American Association for Advancing Science Annual Meeting.  The panelists explored sustainable burial practices; social and legal dimensions of a digital “afterlife,” and questions of long-term curation, access and use of genetic data, and other health information. In discussing such topics, the aims were to develop socially and scientifically informed policies relating to these issues. 

Justice in Health Care

This course is an examination of the ethical problem of allocating scarce medical resources. We will emphasize the fundamental principles of justice that support alternative health policies. Offered jointly with PHIL 411. The first part of the course introduces theories of justice, and considers the support these theories lend to the idea of a right to health care.

Social Justice and Health

This course examines the moral grounds for the view that social inequalities in health are unjust using contemporary literature from moral philosophy and bioethics, case studies, and film. We explore basic questions integral to determinations of social injustice as well as moral constraints on the pursuit of health equity.