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  Rosamond Rhodes, PhD
Associate Program Director & Professor of Bioethics
The Bioethics Program
 
Professor of Medical Education
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Physician-patient relationship
Professionalism
Organ transplantation
Reproduction
Genetics
Research ethics
Justice
Autonomy
Surrogate decision making
End-of-life decisions


ROSAMOND RHODES, Ph.D., is Professor of Medical Education and Director of Bioethics Education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine where she oversees the medical ethics curriculum for students in all four years of medical school, for house staff in eleven residency programs, for graduate post-doctoral fellows in the biomedical sciences, and for students in the genetics counseling program. She directs a program of faculty medical ethics education and collaborates with faculty members on a variety of research projects. Dr. Rhodes serves as a member of Mount Sinai's Ethics Committee and IACUC. Dr. Rhodes is also Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Beyond the teaching setting, Dr. Rhodes serves as co-editor of the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine and on the editorial boards of the international journals Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Bioethics, and Clinical Ethics. She has published over 125 articles and chapters on a broad range of issues in bioethics including: professionalism, justice, the doctor-patient relationship, decisional capacity, surrogate decision making, research ethics, physician-assisted suicide, genetics, cloning, abortion, assisted reproduction, organ transplantation, psychiatry, and bioethics education. She also writes on issues in the history of moral and political philosophy.

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Recent Publications
The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics
(Blackwell, 2007)

Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care
(Oxford, 2002)

Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate
(Routledge, 1998)

"Rethinking Research Ethics."
American Journal of Bioethics 2005; 5(1): 7-28.

"Justice in Medicine and Public Health."
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2005; 14(1): 13-26.
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"Why Test Children for Adult-Onset Genetic Diseases."
The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine 2006 May; 73(3): 609-16.
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"Justice in Organ Allocation,"
chapter in A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship, Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, and Peter Guarnaccia, eds., University of North Carolina Press, 2006; 158-79.

"Molding Professional Character,"
chapter in Lost Virtue: Professional Character Development and Medical Education, Nuala Kenny and Wayne Shelton, eds., Elsevier Press, 2006; 99-115.

"Abortion and Assent,"
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (vol.8, no.4, fall 1999; 416-427).

"Genetic Links, Family Ties, and Social Bonds: Rights and Responsibilities in the Face of Genetic Knowledge"
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. (vol.23, no.1, 1998; 10-30).

Reading Rawls and Hearing Hobbes."
Philosophical Forum, 2002, Winter; 33(4): 393-412.

"Obligation and Assent in Hobbes’s Moral Philosophy."
Hobbes Studies, 2002; XV: 45-67.



 
     
E-mail: rosamond.rhodes @mssm.edu
Phone: 212-241-3757
 

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