Carl Elliott was originally trained in medicine before going into philosophy, and his most recent book, The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No, is about whistleblowing in medical research. Carl grew up in Clover, South Carolina, where his father was a family doctor and his mother was a librarian. He attended Davidson College, the Medical University of South Carolina and Glasgow University in Scotland, training first in medicine and then in philosophy. After postdoctoral positions at the University of Chicago, the University of Otago in New Zealand and the University of Natal Medical School in South Africa, he joined the faculty at McGill University in Montreal. Elliott moved to the University of Minnesota in 1997 to join the Center for Bioethics. He is currently a professor in the Department of Philosophy.
Carl is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award, the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Library of Congress, a resident fellowship at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, and a Weatherhead Fellowship at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Mother Jones and The American Scholar. He has been a visiting faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the University of Sydney, and the University of Otago, where he is an affiliate of the Bioethics Centre. He and his wife, Ina, have three children and live in Minneapolis.
Meet the Respondents/Discussants
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Jill A. Fisher, PhD, Professor, Dept of Social Medicine
Jill A. Fisher, Ph.D., is Professor of Social Medicine and core faculty in the UNC Center for Bioethics. Dr. Fisher is a social scientist with a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and expertise in medical sociology and research ethics. Her scholarship and teaching interests center upon how social inequalities are produced or exploited by commercialized medicine in the United States. Dr. Fisher has published three books and over 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. She is the recipient of over $5 million in funding as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). |
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Joan Krause, JD, Professor, School of Law
Joan H. Krause is an associate dean for faculty development and a Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor of Law. Professor Joan H. Krause is a professor in the Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine; and adjunct professor of health policy and management in the School of Public Health. She previously served as George Butler Research Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Health Law & Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center, where she joined the faculty in 2001. From 1997-2001, Professor Krause was a member of the health law faculty at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Before attending law school, Professor Krause worked as a medical writer/editor in the pharmaceutical industry |
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Doug MacKay, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept of Public Policy
Douglas MacKay holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. Prior to joining the Department of Public Policy on July 1, 2013, he completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. He is a Canadian citizen and grew up in northern British Columbia. MacKay’s research and teaching interests concern questions at the intersection of justice and public policy. He is currently working on projects concerning the nature of health equity, the ethics of public policy research, and the ethical dimensions of policy analysis. |
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