Lisa Eckenwiler, PhD
Professor and Chair of Philosophy
George Mason University
Abstract: Dr. Eckenwiler will describe an eco-structural approach (ESA) to health ethics, suggesting that it should advance ethical ideals in many domains, especially health justice. With a conception of people as ecological subjects, an ESA privileges place, seeing people as dwelling in particular health ecosystems. How do conditions support or undermine health? Simultaneously, an ESA situates us in social norms and processes. Do these enhance the capability to be healthy? Do they generate structural health injustice? An ESA might have us design around shared investment in and global coordination of health worker education and deployment, tailored to specific health ecosystems to help ensure equity.
Sponsored by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Bioethics
Location and Address
Online