REBECCA WALKER Adjunct Assistant Professor

Rebecca Walker, Adjunct Assistant Professor, with a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Medicine, specializes in bioethics and ethical theory. Within bioethics, she is primarily interested in issues of moral status, patient autonomy and the just distribution of scarce health care resources. She also works on issues of practical ethics methodology. Sample publications: "Morality and the Limits of Societal Preferences in Health Care Allocation," (with Andrew W. Siegel) in Health Economics (2002); “Human and Animal Subjects of Research: The Moral Significance of Respect versus Welfare,” in Journal of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (2006); Working Virtue: Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems, co-ed. with Philip J. Ivanhoe (2007). [Complete CV]