Rebecca
L. Walker
Assistant
Professor
B.A., 1992, Stanford University
M.A., 1994, and Ph.D. (Philosophy), 1998, Stanford University
Joint appointment: Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Dr. Walker’s philosophical research interests are in the areas of ethical theory and bioethics. She is primarily interested in a pluralistic approach to ethical theories and in topics in bioethics including: the allocation of scarce health care resources, patient autonomy, and the ethics of how we treat non-human animals. Teaching interests include these areas as well as the philosophy of punishment. Sample publications include: "Morality and the Limits of Societal Preferences in Health Care Allocation," (with Andrew W. Siegel) in Health Economics (2002) and Working Virtue: Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems, co-edited with Philip J. Ivanhoe (forthcoming in 2005 with Oxford University Press).
After completing a post-doctoral fellowship in Bioethics and Health Policy
at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities (sponsored by the Greenwall
Foundation) in 2001, Dr. Walker served in a joint appointment as Project
Director for the Life Sciences, Values and Society Program and Visiting
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan in Ann
Arbor. She took up her present position in the Departments of Social Medicine
and Philosophy in July of 2003. In Philosophy, Dr. Walker regularly teaches
an undergraduate course in Bioethics. In Social Medicine she teaches a
section of the “Medicine and Society” course for first year
medical students as well as a course on the allocation of scarce medical
resources for both advanced philosophy students and second year medical
students.
You may contact Dr. Walker by email: rlwalker@med.unc.edu; by phone at: (919) 843-6896; or by post at: CB #7240, Department of Social Medicine / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7240.
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