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Philosophy Department

Lisa Eckenwiler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Director of Health Care Ethics
Center for Health Policy Research
and Ethics

Contact Information:
Office: Robinson B472C
Email: leckenwi@gmu.edu
Phone: 703 993-1724

Office Hours:
Tues | 3:00-4:00 | and by appointment

Fall 2008 Courses:
PHIL 642 Biomedical Ethics Thought (3)
Prereq: graduate standing or permission of the instructor
Phil 642 001 | M | 4:30-7:10 | 74425

Recent News:
Prof. Eckenwiler recently spoke at a meeting at the Institute of Population Health in Toronta, Canada entitled "Caregiving in the Context of Globalization: Toward Transnational Justice and the Elimination of Health Inequities". Their website is on a larger site, “Global Health Equity” at http://www.globalhealthequity.ca/ welcome/index.shtml

Areas of Interest:
Lisa Eckenwiler received her B.A. in Behavioral Sciences and Law from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. In addition to being an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, she is also the Director of Health Care Ethics in the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics at Mason.

Before joining the faculty at George Mason, she was an Associate Professor and Co-director for the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Old Dominion University. From 2002-2004 she served as Director for the Consortium to Examine Clinical Research Ethics at the Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities, Duke University Medical Center. In 2006 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C.

Works in progress include: Justice and Caregiving in the Context of Globalization: Toward Justice for All (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming) and Ethical Review and the Public Policy Implications of Research.

Her published works include:

"The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape," co-edited with Felicia Cohn, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)

with Jonathan D. Moreno, "Ethical Principles in Clinical Trials," in Randomized Clinical Trials: Methods and Analyses for the Behavioral Clinical Sciences, eds. Peter G. Kaufmann, Karina W. Davidson, and Helena Chmura Kraemer (Springer, forthcoming)

"An Ecological Framework for Caregiving (letter)," American Journal of Public Health, vol. 97, no. 11, forthcoming

"Caring About Long Term Care: An Ethical Framework for Caregiving," (Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C., July 2007)

“When I’m 64 (and Then Some), Who Will Care? Aging in America,” Bioethics Forum (6 April 2006) http://www.bioethicsforum.org/20060406leckenwiler.asp

“A Missed Opportunity: The President’s Council on Bioethics Report on Ethical Caregiving,” American Journal of Bioethics, vol. 6, no. 2 (March/April 2006): W20-23

"The Ethical Underpinnings of Emergency Preparedness and Biodefense Policy," Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, vol. 14, no. 3 (Summer 2005): 306-315with Carol Levine, Ruth Faden, Christine Grady, Dale Hammerschmidt, and Jeremy Sugarman,

"The Limitations of ‘Vulnerability’ for the Protection of Human Research Participants," American Journal of Bioethics vol. 4, no. 3 (Summer 2004): 44-49

“Why Not Retribution: The Particular Imagination and Justice for Pregnant Drug Users," Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, vol. 21, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 89-99

with Carol Levine, Ruth Faden, Christine Grady, Dale Hammerschmidt, and Jeremy Sugarman, "’Special Scrutiny’: A Targeted Form of Protocol Review for the Protection of Human Research Participants,” Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 140, no. 3 (February 3, 2004): 220-223

"Emergency Health Workers & the Ethics of Crisis," In the Wake of Terror: Medicine & Morality in a Time of Crisis, ed. Jonathan D. Moreno (MIT Press, 2003): 111-132

"Moral Reasoning and the Review of Research Involving Human Subjects," Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal vol. 11, no. 1 (March 2001): 37-69

"Justice and Access to Therapies for AIDS," AIDS and Public Policy Journal vol. 14, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 20-25

"Pursuing Reform in Clinical Research: Lessons from Women's Experience," Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics vol. 27, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 158-170