Holloway Elected as Fellow at The Hastings Center

Karla FC Holloway, the James B. Duke Professor of English and Professor of Law at Duke, has been named one of eight fellows at The Hastings Center. The NY-based bioethics research institution allows scholars to participate in collaborative interdisciplinary research and dialogue on the ethical and social effects of advances in health care and life sciences.

Holloway, who also holds appointments in the women's studies and African & African American Studies departments, is working on a new book, Private Bodies/Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Narrative Bioethics. She is also on the Greenwall Foundation's Advisory Board for Bioethics.

"She is widely recognized as a leader in bioethics at the intersection of law and the humanities, and for her talents as a writer, mentor, and advocate," the center said in its announcement.

The fellowship is an elected association of researchers whose contributions in their fields have been influential in bioethics. At the center, the scholars address ethical questions raised by advances in science and medicine, and tackled by policymakers. Among these are health reform, end-of-life care, genetic testing, reproductive decisions, conflict of interest, biosecurity, and neuropharmacology.

Other fellows are Christopher H. Evans, Harvard Medical School chemist and molecular biologist; Atul Gawande, Harvard surgeon and New Yorker magazine staff writer; Lainie Ross, University of Chicago medical ethicist; and Paul Root Wolpe, director of the Center for Ethics at Emory University. The three new international fellows are Abdallah Daar, University of Toronto Professor of Public Health Sciences and Surgery; Diego Gracia, Professor of the History of Medicine and Bioethics at Complutense University, Madrid, Spain; and Mats G. Hansson, Director of the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics at Uppsala University, Sweden. There are a total of 179 fellows.

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