Melinda C. Hall, PhD

A description of my research written for Stetson University Magazine.

I was interviewed for an article on the use of big data in healthcare for the Medical Ethics Advisor. I call for a distributive justice lens to be used in these cases and connect the issue to President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initative. See here for the article.

I’m looking forward to attending the conference “Bioethics: Preparing for the Unknown” hosted by WMU Ethics Center this week; I’m especially looking forward to hearing from the excellent keynote speakers, Dr. Insoo Hyun and Dr. Richard Sharp on CRISPR and precision medicine, respectively. I’m heading out today from Orlando with a coat in hand for…

I am glad to announce that my paper on disability and horror is forthcoming in Disability Studies Quarterly. Here’s the abstract: Understanding disability requires understanding its social construction, and social construction can be read in cultural products. In this essay, I look to one major locus for images of persons with disabilities—horror. Horror films and fiction…

Our fall semester at Stetson is well underway, with midterms rapidly approaching. I’m reading through a stack of papers right now, which tackle everything from Nietzsche and Heidegger to utopianism and conservatism. I’m encouraged by the seriousness with which my students undertook their projects and their desire to produce meaningful writing. In my Bio-Medical Ethics…

It’s the middle of a busy summer here in Florida, a time when your pen will melt right in your hand as you attempt to put words on paper. (My excitement at playing a game of tennis ended in heat rash and a solemn vow to return to the sport in the fall.) Work for…

Over the weekend, I was a guest judge at the National Bioethics Bowl, which was held in Tallahassee at Florida State University. Concurrently held was the National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference #NUBC2015. Undergraduate students from across the country presented their work. During the bowl rounds, I loved watching the students, who were dedicated and excited, break into…

I touched down in Vancouver late this evening for the 2015 APA-Pacific meeting. I look forward to sharing my paper, “Bioethics in Catastrophe: A Reply to Liao, Sandberg, and Roache on Human Enhancement,” tomorrow and hearing from the commentator! 

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My blog post on environmental catastrophe and bioethics is up on the IJFAB blog today – check it out! And while you’re there, browse many fabulous discussions by awesome feminist bioethicists and philosophers.