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During his stay at the Institute, Dr. Adams worked on several projects in the area of clinical ethics, each one exploring the role and purpose of “ethicists” and of ethics consultation in the clinical setting. One project investigated the role of consensus formation as a way of imparting moral authority to the process of ethics consultation, while another critically examined claims that philosophical methods of analysis have a distinctive role to play in resolving moral dilemmas at the bedside; a third project in the history of bioethics argued for a revised understanding of the moral demands in medical practice which brought philosophers, theologians, and other “outsiders” into the clinic, and from which contemporary “bioethics” is said to have emerged. Dr. Adams is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Washington, and Stanford University. He is currently doing graduate work in bioethics and health policy at Loyola University of Chicago.
During her time with the Institute, Dr. Rebecca Laroche completed her current book manuscript, Herbal Rhetoric: Englishwomen's Texts and Medical Authority, 1550-1650, and submitted it for possible publication. Her research in part demonstrates that women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries owned large and expensive volumes of medical texts and wrote on and about these texts with authority. In addition to UTMB's support of this portion of her work, the entire project on women's writing in the context of herbal practice has received support from the Huntington, Folger Shakespeare, and Yale Beinecke Libraries. Along with working with graduate students in their research interests, she also presented two papers, "'Helpes in their own fieldes and gardens': Women's ownership of English herbals, 1550-1700" and "Rosemary, Roses, and Borage: One woman's herbalism in seventeenth-century England."
Meredith is an Assistant Professor of Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College. She is working on a manuscript which uses theoretical frameworks from media studies, cultural geography, and the history of public health explore representations of the geography of the AIDS epidemic in the United States. It traces the contours and shifting scale of narratives that track the gendered and racialized movement of HIV around the globe and within the nation, from research into its “origin” to its movement in rural areas. In addition, Dr. Raimondo is working on an essay which analyzes photographs of President Bush's 2002 trip to five African nations to think through human rights and the militarization of global health discourse.
Kimberley Green Weathers is an adjunct member of the University of Maryland-University College faculty. The focus of her work at the Institute is a history of national health insurance in the United States. This study will bring together the social and political elements of the story and provide historical perspective for the current debate. Dr. Weathers holds degrees from Stephen F. Austin State University (BA) and the University of Houston (MA, PhD).
Ms. Hermer is a health care attorney and policy analyst who specializes in issues impacting access to health care in the United States. While at the Institute, Ms. Hermer is completing a study of U.S. health care access from a patient-centered perspective. The study provides an overview and analysis of the different legal and economic means by which most Americans obtain access to medical care. It offers suggestions for improving each while maintaining the present system largely intact, as well as a proposal for modifying the system to provide cost-effective primary care access for all U.S. residents. Ms. Hermer is additionally an adjunct member of the Institute. In this capacity, she is working with both the graduate students and medical students in fall 2004, co-teaching bioethics and Texas health policy, respectively, and teaching a seminar on health policy in the spring.
Hannah Landecker is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rice University. While at the institute, she is working on a project that examines the changing human relationship to living matter in an age of biotechnology. Through a history of the technical manipulation of living cells, she looks at how biological things, including those made with human tissues, have been turned into tools and commercial objects. She is also working on developing new methods and curricula for teaching the history and social study of biotechnology to undergraduates. Dr. Landecker has degrees from the Program in Science, Technology and Society at MIT (PhD), and the University of British Columbia (BSc).
Dr. Pemberton is a historian of medicine and Assistant Professor in the Federated Department of History at the New Jersey Institute of Technology - Rutgers University, Newark. He is writing a book about the history of hemophilia in the United States, entitled Passport to Normality: Hemophilia and the Ironies of Biomedical Progress in the Twentieth Century. As an IMH visiting scholar, Dr. Pemberton investigated hemophilia's history as a sex-linked disorder, and how that history has impacted efforts by hematologists and other medical professionals to manage this disease. His training in history (MA/PhD) and philosophy (MA) informs his work, as does his past professional experience working at the Medical School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Dr. Brink came to the Institute from the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, where she is a research scholar. Her project, Death Watch: The ‘Good Death' Reconsidered, examines the ars moriendi (arts of dying) historically and as a contemporary cultural phenomenon. At the Institute her research has focused on a cost/benefit analysis of hospice as a social movement and has included personal narratives and interviews with hospice workers. Dr. Brink has degrees from Northwestern (BA), Harvard (MA), and Wisconsin (PhD). She formerly taught Shakespeare and Milton at Arizona State University (1974-2002) where she founded and directed the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. She is the author of Michael Drayton Revisited (1990) and has published biographical articles on Edmund Spenser as well as studies of Elizabethan culture.
Came to us from Minneapolis, Ninnesota where he is the Morse Alumni distinguished Teaching Professor of Music and an Adjunct Professor of American and Jewish Studies . His work here involved Disability Studies and Performing Arts Medicine.
Dr. Lun Li is associate professor at the Institute of Ethics, Hunan Normal University, China. Before he came to us, he is research ethics fellow of Harvard School of Public Health. He taught at Central South University Xiang-Ya School of Medicine (then Hunan Medical University) in 1991-1999. He launched Chinese Bioethics Website (
Dr. Fairchild is a historian of public health at the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Her work focuses on the intersection of history and public health policy. Among her current projects are books on the history and ethics of disease surveillance, harm reduction, and illness narratives. Fairchild's project while at IMH was “Community and Confinement: The Evolving Experience of Isolation for Leprosy in Carville, Louisiana,” which considered patients' role in shaping a federal institution from 1920 through 1950 as their sense of themselves as a community grew and then faded.
Dr. Morreim is a professor of bioethics at the College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Much of her work has been interdisciplinary, and she has written a number of articles at the intersection of law, medicine, economics, and ethics. Her project at IMH was "Emerging Litigation Issues in Human Clinical Research Trials," an exploration of the ways in which courts and the common law are ill-prepared to address the distinctive issues that arise in clinical research.
Dr. Cecire received her PhD in Religion and Social Ethics from the University of Southern California. Before returning to academe, she served as Director of the Office of Special Projects for Correctional Health at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. Her current projects include an examination of the meanings and implications of the health/punishment interface, a feminist analysis of the specific implications of punishment-linked beneficence for women, and an exploration of the ethics of inmate participation in clinical research focusing on issues of equity and coercion.