Visiting Scholars
The ScattergoodEthics Visiting Scholars Series regularly hosts thought leaders in behavioral healthcare ethics.
Jonathan Metzl, MD, PhD
ScattergoodEthics Visiting Scholar in February 2012
Dr. Metzl is Frederick B. Rentschler II Chair of Sociology and Medicine, Health, and Society and is Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Metzl is a psychiatrist who also has a Ph.D. in American Studies. He is the author of Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs (Duke University Press, 2003), and of The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (Beacon Press, 2010).
David Brendel, MD, PhD
ScattergoodEthics Visiting Scholar in January 2011
David H. Brendel, M.D., Ph.D. practices psychiatry in Boston and teaches in the ethics and professionalism course at Harvard Medical School. He previously served as chair of the institutional review board (IRB) and as associate medical director of the Pavilion evaluation and treatment program at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. His academic work focuses on psychiatric ethics and on the complex relationship between scientific and humanistic approaches in psychiatry. He has a particular interest in clinical and ethical issues relating to online social networking in medicine and psychiatry. He has taught and published extensively on these topics. His book, Healing Psychiatry: Bridging the Science/Humanism Divide, was published by the MIT Press in 2006 and released in paperback in 2009.
James Giordano, PhD
ScattergoodEthics Visiting Scholar in October 2010
Dr. James Giordano is Director of the Center for Neurotechnology Studies and Vice President for Academic Programs at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, in Arlington VA, USA. He is Senior Research Associate of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; University Affiliate Professor of Molecular Neuroscience at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Studies of George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA, and 2011-2012 Fulbright Professor of Neuroethics at the Ludwig Maximillians University, Munich, Germany. The author of over 150 publications in neuroscience, neurophilosophy and neuroethics, his recent books include Maldynia- Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on the Illness of Chronic Pain (CRC/Taylor-Francis); and Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives in Neuroethics (with Bert Gordijn, Cambridge University Press). Prof. Giordano is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine; and Associate Editor of the journal Neuroethics.
R. Tony Hope, PhD
ScattergoodEthics Visiting Scholar in April 2010
Tony Hope is Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Oxford, Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, and Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. He has carried out research in basic neuroscience and Alzheimer’s Disease. Since 1990 his research has focused on clinical ethics. He founded, and was first director of, the Ethox Centre. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Hastings Center, New York, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago. He was the first chairman of the Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Strategy Committee and is currently the chairman of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party on Ethical Issues in Dementia. He has written over 100 academic articles. His books include: the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine (editions 1-4); Manage Your Mind; Medical Ethics and Law: the Core Curriculum; Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction; and Empirical Ethics in Psychiatry.
Jennifer Radden, PhD
ScattergoodEthics Visiting Scholar in January 2009
Jennifer Radden, PhD, recently retired, was a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston from 1975-2010. Dr. Radden received her doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University. Her many publications include Madness and Reason (Allen & Unwin, 1985), Divided Minds and Successive Selves: Ethical Issues in Disorders of Identity and Personality (MIT, 1996) and On Delusion (Routledge, 2011). She has served on the McClean Hospital Ethics Committee since 1996.
Robert Klitzman, MD
ScattergoodEthics Visiting Scholar in April 2008
Robert Klitzman, MD, is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health. He co-founded, and for five years co-directed the Center for Bioethics, and is currently the Director of the Ethics, Policy and Human Rights Core of the HIV Center. He has extensively studied and published on ethical, social, and psychological issues in medicine and psychiatry, including issues of privacy and disclosure of genetic and other medical information; reproductive technologies; stigma and discrimination related to HIV infection; neuroethics; issues of medical education and doctor-patient communication; and ethical issues that arise in conducting research in other cultures. He was named a gubanatorial appointee to the New York State Stem Cell Commission, and has received numerous awards for his work, including a Burroughs-Wellcome Fellowship (for Future Leaders in Psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association), an Aaron Diamond Foundation Fellowship, a Picker-Commonwealth Scholar Award, a Visiting Scholar Award at the Russell Sage Foundation, Fellowships at Yaddo, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residence.