Medical History and Bioethics

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Faculty

Thomas H. Broman, Associate Professor, A.B.(biology and chemistry) Ripon College; M.S. (agronomy) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; M.A. (history) Princeton University; Ph.D. (history) Princeton University. Early modern medicine.

Norman Fost, Professor, Pediatrics and Bioethics, A.B. Princeton University; M.D. Yale University; M.P.H. Harvard University. Ethical and legal issues in research and genetic screening; use of performance enhancing drugs; access to growth hormone; definition of death.

Linda F. Hogle, Associate Professor, Medical Technology, B.S. Texas Christian University; M.B.A. University of Texas; Ph.D. Medical Anthropology, University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley. Stem cell and tissue engineering policy and ethics; socio-cultural, political and ethical issues in emerging biomedical technologies; transnational issues in transplantation and medical device development.

Judith A. Houck, Assistant Professor, B.A. (liberal studies) St. John's College, Sante Fe; M.A., Ph.D. (history of science) University of Wisconsin. History of women's health, American medicine, medicine and sexuality, race and medicine, science and gender.

Richard Keller, Assistant Professor, B.A. (history) University of Colorado at Boulder; M.A., (European history), University of Colorado at Boulder; Ph.D. (European history), Rutgers University. History of European and colonial medicine and public health, history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, history of the human sciences, science and race.

Judith W. Leavitt, Ruth Bleier Professor, Rupple Bascom Chair Professor, B.A. (social sciences) Antioch College; M.A.T. (education) University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D. (history) University of Chicago. History of medicine and public health in America; women and medicine.

Susan Lederer, Professor and Chair, B.A. (history of science) Johns Hopkins University; M.A., (history of science), University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ph.D. (history of science), University of Wisconsin, Madison.Medicine and society in twentieth-century America, media and medicine, history of medical ethics.

Gregg Mitman, Professor, B.Sc. (biology) Dalhousie University; M.A., Ph.D. (history of science) University of Wisconsin. History of ecology; environment and health, 20th century life sciences; science in America; science and film.

Ronald L. Numbers, Hilldale and William Coleman Professor, B.A. (mathematics and physics) Southern Adventist University; M.A. (history) Florida State University; Ph.D. (history) University of California, Berkeley. American science and medicine; science and religion.

Walton O. Schalick III, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Medical History. M.D., Ph.D. (History of Science, Technology and Medicine), Johns Hopkins University, Medieval Western medicine, Disability history, history of childhood and pediatrics, bioethics and children.

Robert StreifferAssociate Professor, Bioethics and Philosophy, B.A. (philosophy) Reed College; Ph.D. Massachussets Institute of Technology. Abstract ethical theory, political philosophy; ethical and political issues related to agricultural biotechnology.

Alan J. Weisbard, Associate Professor, Bioethics and Law, A.B. Harvard College; J.D. Yale Law School. Death and dying; impact of Holocaust on development of bioethics; Jewish Studies and religious ethics.

Affiliates

R. Alta Charo, Professor, Law and Bioethics, A.B. (biology) Harvard-Radcliffe College; J.D. Columbia University School of Law. Reproductive rights; genetics; human subjects research; biotechnology politics.

Daniel Hausman, Herbert A. Simon Professor, History and Literature, B.A. Harvard; Philosophy, B.A., M.A. Cambridge; Philosophy, M.A., Ph.D. Columbia. He is currently involved with questions concerning the concept of health, the allocation of health care resources, and the role of preferences in measuring health and setting policy.

Pilar N. Ossorio, Associate Professor, Law and Bioethics, B.S. (biology) Stanford University; Ph.D. (microbiology and immunology) Stanford University; J.D. University of California at Berkeley School of Law. Research ethics and regulation; ethical issues in genetics; race theory; race/ethnicity in research and medicine, community consultation as an ethics method.

Claire Wendland, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, M.D., Michigan State University, 1990; Ph.D., U Mass Amherst, 2004; the globalization of biomedicine,particularly in Africa; the anthropology of reproduction, sexuality and the body.

Faculty

Affiliates

Medical History & Bioethics
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Madison, WI 53706-1532