UVa | philosophy
Elizabeth Fenton
Elizabeth received her PhD from the University of Virginia in 2008. Her dissertation was entitled "Overlapping Consensus and Human Rights" and was supervised by Professor John D. Arras.

She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Harvard University's Program in Ethics and Health, and is pursuing research in health resource prioritization, with a special focus on high cost pharmaceuticals. Her research interests are in political philosophy, ethics and bioethics, and include human rights theory, health and human rights, and genetic enhancement technology.

M.A. in Philosophy, Colorado State University (2002)

B.A. in Philosophy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand (2000)

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Publications:

“Genetic Enhancement – A Threat to Human Rights?” Bioethics (Bioethics 22 (2008): 1-7).

“Liberal Eugenics and Human Nature: Against Habermas.” Hastings Center Report Vol. 36, No. 6 (2006): 35–42.

With Loren Lomasky, “Dispensing with Liberty: Conscientious Refusal and the ‘Morning-After Pill’.” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Vol. 30, No. 6 (2005): 579–92.

Course Syllabi:

Ethics and Genetic Technology and Environmental and Animal Welfare Ethics