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About the Center
Lisa Eckenwiler, Ph.D.
Director of Health Care Ethics
Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Contact Information:
Office: Robinson B472C
Email: leckenwi@gmu.edu
Phone: 703 993-1724
Office Hours:
By appointment
Spring 2008 Courses:
PHIL 691/NURS 660
Seminar in Health Care Ethics
Areas of Interest:
Lisa Eckenwiler is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department
of Philosophy and Director of Health Care Ethics at the Center for Health
Policy Research and Ethics at George Mason University. She teaches courses
in bioethics, ethics in health policy, ethics and public health, and
research ethics. She has published widely on research ethics, and also
has written on access to AIDS care, policy for pregnant addicts, and
the ethical implications of work in biodefense and emergency preparedness. Her
book, The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral
Landscape (co edited
with Felicia Cohn), was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in
2007. Currently she is writing a book on justice and caregiving in the
context of globalization (forthcoming, Johns Hopkins University Press).
Professor Eckenwiler earned her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Ph.D. in philosophy with a concentration in bioethics from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Prior to joining the faculty at George Mason University she was Associate Professor of Philosophy and Co Director of the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs in the Department of Philosophy at Old Dominion University. She also taught in the medical humanities program at Loyola University’s Stritch School of Medicine. From 2002-2003, she served as Director for the Consortium to Examine Clinical Research Ethics at the Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities at Duke University. In 2006 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. where she developed a report entitled Caring about Long Term Care: An Ethical Framework for Caregiving and organized a symposium for policy makers.