Faculty
Our faculty members are scholars in bioethics, literature, law, history, religion, anthropology, and philosophy. They are leaders in the areas of the culture of ethics, including religious worldviews, in the epistemology of medicine, and in disability ethics. Learn more via their faculty profiles below.
Megan Crowley-Matoka is Director of our Master of Arts program.
Belling, Catherine F
Associate Professor of Medical Education
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Hypochondriasis as psychiatric diagnosis; hypochondria/disease anxiety as a problem for primary care; cultural narratives regarding health/disease and their role in fostering anxiety about disease and... [more]
Chambers, Tod S
Associate Professor of Medical Education and Medicine (General Internal Medicine)
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the rhetoric of bioethics; bioethics theory; cross-cultural issues in clinical ethics
Crowley-Matoka, Megan
Associate Professor of Medical Education
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I study the culture of medicine as it affects patients, healthcare providers, and society at large. Broadly, my research explores the problem of clinical uncertainty, and the complex social dynamics a... [more]
Rodriguez, Sarah B
Lecturer of Medical Education
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My primary area of research is in women's reproductive and sexual health, from 1900 to the present. I am also a thesis advisor for Medical Humanities and Human Sexuality research for the Area of Schol... [more]
Sheldon, Mark
Distinguished Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Weinberg College
Tarsney, Preya S
Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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Preya Sharma Tarsney, JD, is a Bioethicist in the Donnelley Ethics Program at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. She is a Lecturer in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Northwestern University Feinberg S... [more]
Watson, Katherine L
Associate Professor of Medical Education, Medical Social Sciences (Determinants of Health) and Obstetrics and Gynecology
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Professor Katie Watson is a lawyer (New York U School of Law) who clerked in the federal judiciary and practiced public interest law before coming to Northwestern, and a bioethicist who completed fell... [more]