Listening to the Whispers: Re-thinking Ethics in Healthcare

Contributors

Contributors Christine S. Dinkins received her BA with Honors in philosophy from Wake Forest University and her MA and PhD in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University. She is an assistant professor in the Philosophy Department at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC, where she teaches courses in Ancient Greek philosophy, 19th- and 20th-century German philosophy, philosophy of law, and philosophy through literature. Dr. Dinkins’s primary interests are the philosophical methods of Plato and Heidegger. Her current research includes employing Heideggerian hermeneutics in a nondoctrinal contextual interpretation of Plato’s works. She is also exploring hermeneutics in music, and her chief hobby is composing choral music, both sacred and secular. In her work with undergraduates, Dr. Dinkins encourages philosophy students to engage in interdisciplinary research with students in other humanities fields and the sciences. Bruce H. Greenfield, PT, PhD, OCS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Division of Physical Therapy, at Emory University School of Medicine, where he is an active teacher, clinician, and researcher . Dr. Greenfield’s current research uses qualitative methods to examine aspects of the psychobiological model of patient care, including moral orientation and ethical decision making of physical therapists during delivery of patient care. He is collaborating with other faculty members in the Emory Department of Rehabilitation Medicine in a pilot study that qualitatively examines subjects’ perceptions of their research experience. He is also collaborating with colleagues at the Atlanta Veterans Administration Hospital in a qualitative study of patients’ perception of informed decision making. Dr. Greenfield has received the Breg Award from the Sports Section of the American Physical Therapy Association for the best sports research article published in 1992. He currently serves on the Research Committee of the Physical Therapy Association of Georgia and is currently on the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy. 315 Kathryn H. Kavanagh, BSN, MS (Nursing), MA (Anthropology), PhD, is a medical anthropologist who has taught for many years in the University of Maryland system. Her interest in cross-cultural aspects of healthcare led her to conduct a series of summer field schools on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where students worked with Oglala-Lakota health initiatives. She also taught at Northern Arizona University, where she directed a baccalaureate program on the Navajo and Hopi Reservations. She currently teaches courses in medical anthropology, indigenous healing traditions, and American Indian cultures for the University of Maryland and other schools in the Baltimore area. Widely published in cultural aspects of healthcare, she continues to write on diversity-related topics. Simon J. Craddock Lee, MPH, PhD, is a cancer prevention fellow in the ethics of prevention and public health at the National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, Behavioral Research Program, Basic and Bio-behavioral Research Branch. A medical anthropologist, he is developing a critical theory analysis of cancer disparities research and policy. He completed his MPH at the University of California, Berkeley before earning a PhD from the joint program between UC-San Francisco and UC-Berkeley in 2003. He currently serves as cochair for the Culture and Qualitative Research Interest Group, a group of intramural and extramural scientists sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Nancy J. Moules, PhD, RN, is an associate professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary. Her research and clinical interests lie in the areas of grief, families, therapeutic conversations, and Family Systems Nursing. Her areas of teaching expertise include graduate program qualitative research methods and hermeneutic inquiry. She is currently involved in programs of research using hermeneutic inquiry to examine grief and therapeutic interventions around grief, therapeutic conversations with families who are experiencing suffering in their lives and relationships, and family nursing relational practices in cardiac and oncology settings. Her various publications are in the areas of grief, postmodernism and spirituality, hermeneutic research, pediatric oncology, therapeutic letters, and the teaching of family nursing. Tobie H. Olsan, PhD, RN, CNAA, BC is an associate professor of Clinical Nursing, Director of Education Research, and Director of the Leadership in Health Care Systems program at the University of Rochester School of Nursing. She has held a variety of executive positions in healthcare organizations and nursing education, and in 2004 was selected as a Fuld Fellow in Academic Leadership at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. She brings interests in 316 Contributors professional activism, institutional...