People Type: Faculty at MHB

Interests: History of Medicine and Science in the Atlantic World; History of Medicine and Science in Latin America; History of Medicine and Science and the African Diaspora; Early modern corporeal epistemologies; Race and medicine.

Interests: Applied ethics and political philosophy as they bear on health policy.

Interests: Clinical ethics, neuroethics, self-tracking and phenomenology, citizen science and gamification.

Biography Click here to make an office hours appointment Interests: I am a historian of 19th and 20th century medicine and public health in the United States. My research examines the relationship between nutritional disease, community health work, and the political economy of capitalism in the U.S. South. Methodologically, my research blends the approaches and …

Interests: Medicine and society in twentieth-century America; race, medicine, and public health; medicine and popular culture; research ethics; and history of medical ethics.

Interests: History of the recent life sciences, especially genetics; biology and society; science and technology studies; science and law; laboratory studies and scientific practice; ethnography and oral history.

Interests: Research ethics and regulation; ethical issues in genetics; race theory; race/ethnicity in research and medicine, community consultation as an ethics method.

Interests: Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Clinical Medical Ethics, End-of-Life Care and Advance Directives, Health Services Research.

Biography Interests Abstract ethical theory, political philosophy; ethical and political issues related to agricultural biotechnology. Affiliations The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Curriculum Vitae Robert Streiffer’s C.V. Education Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Philosophy, 1999 B.A., Reed College, Philosophy, 1993 Books Robert Streiffer, Moral Relativism and Reasons for Action (Routledge, 2003). Selected Book Sections “Genetically Engineered …