Melinda C. Hall, PhD

I am very glad to announce that I have been invited to speak on my forthcoming book, The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics at California State University, Fresno. My talk will be part of the Leon S. Peters Ethics Lecture Series, hosted by the Ethics Center at Fresno State. The talk will be…

I was interviewed for a very comprehensive article on the financial and environmental factors impacting quality of life in cities for disabled people. You can see the article, along with my remarks, here. Please weigh in!

I’m pleased to have arrived in Kalamazoo for the annual Medical Humanities Conference, organized by Western Michigan University.  I will give a paper on Friday on the topic of access to technology. Read the title and abstract, below! “3D-Printing the Neo-Liberal Subject: Mere Access to Emerging Technology is Not Enough” Emerging technologies and hacker communities…

I am thrilled to announce that my monograph, The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics, is due out with Lexington Books by the end of the year. In a critical intervention into the bioethics debate over human enhancement, I tackle the claim that the expansion and development of human capacities is a moral obligation.…

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…