UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Public Engagement

Community Bioethics

I participate in a range of projects related to bioethics here in North Texas. I am an active member of the North Texas Bioethics Network and the Tarrant County Medical Society.

I have also worked with several hospices in Dallas-Fort Worth to provide my Introduction to Bioethics students with service learning opportunities that are directly integrated into their curriculum.

In the News

Coverage

Professor draws attention to Texas university's use of unclaimed bodies. Spectrum News, Oct 4, 2024.
Cut up and leased out, the bodies of the poor suffer a final indignity in Texas. NBC News, Sept 16, 2024.
Philosophy that You Can Touch and Feel. UTA News Release, Oct 23, 2023.
Medical Schools Are Still Desecrating the Corpses of the Poor. Jacobin, Oct 31, 2023.
Texas med schools increasingly turn to unclaimed bodies for student education. Dallas Morning News, Aug 30, 2023.
Models of philosophical thought experiments. Daily Nous, Oct 31, 2022.
Cadavers help students prepare for professions in medicine. But some are donated without consent. Fort Worth Report, April 3, 2022.
At patients' bedsides, students learn what textbooks can't teach. UTA News Release, Mar 15, 2022.

Interviews and public comment

Texas lawmaker moves to outlaw medical research on corpses without consent after NBC News investigation. NBC News, Feb 20, 2025.
Texas medical school ordered to stop liquefying bodies after using them for training. NBC News, Nov 15, 2024.
Unclaimed dead bodies are often "donated" to science, but it's not always consensual. Salon, Oct 27, 2024.
Texas county adopts policy to ensure unclaimed bodies are treated with dignity. NBC News, Oct 15, 2024.
Texas lawmaker vows to ban medical research on unclaimed bodies after NBC News investigation. NBC News, Sept 27, 2024.
NBC Nightly News interview. Sept 19, 2024.
Fort Worth university suspends unclaimed bodies program. Will Tarrant County cut ties? KERA, Sept 17, 2024.
Military kept hundreds of organs after performing autopsies, watchdog says. NBC News, March 22, 2024.
In Texas jails, deaths from failure to give proper medication are shrouded in secrecy. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 4, 2023.
When there isn't enough medicine to go around, who gets it? Fort Worth Report, Feb 10, 2022.

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