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Dr. Parker is Associate Professor of Human Genetics and
Behavioral and Community Health Sciences in the Graduate School of Public
Health. She is also an affiliated faculty member in the Department of
Philosophy, a member of the Steering Committee of the Women’s Studies
Program, and a fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science. She serves
as Director of Graduate Education for the Center for Bioethics and Health
Law, where she is Director of the interdisciplinary Master of Arts in
Bioethics program and co-director (with Russ Kolarik)
of the Area of Concentration in Medical Humanities. Dr. Parker teaches
several courses, including Bioethics; Gender, Ethics, and the Body; Ethical
and Philosophical Issues in Genetics; and Ethical and Legal Issues in Human
Genetics (with Alan Meisel). Dr. Parker has
published extensively on ethical concerns related to the design and conduct
of research, particularly genetic research, as well as on aesthetic
surgery, confidentiality, informed consent, and organ transplantation. With
a national working group of the Association of Schools of Public Health,
Dr. Parker edited Ethics and Public Health:
Model Curriculum (Association of Schools of Public Health, 2003; http://www.asph.org/document.cfm?page=782
). She is co-author of the second edition of Informed Consent: Legal Theory
and Clinical Practice (Oxford,
2001). Dr. Parker currently collaborates on research with the University’s Advanced
Center for Interventions and
Services Research in Late-Life Mood Disorders, and serves as the bioethics
training faculty member in two India-US collaborative training programs
sponsored by the Fogarty International
Center of the NIH. Her current
research interests include ethical issues arising in scientific research
generally and in genetic research and the provision of genetic services in
particular, as well as ethics in public health, feminist approaches to
bioethical issues, and critical analysis of bioethics as a social practice
and field of inquiry.
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