SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professors Neil Feit and Stephen Kershnar, both of the Department of Philosophy, will lead new working groups at the Romanell Center for Clinical Ethics and the Philosophy of Medicine at the State University at Buffalo.
Formerly the Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care, the Romanell Center is a multi-disciplinary center with a long tradition of coordinating academic activities that focus on bioethics and complex health care issues. The center is poised to expand collaborative research and experience-based learning at UB to better serve the communities of Western New York, Southern Ontario and beyond.
Dr. Feit leads the new Working Group on Health, Harm and Well-Being and is also a member of the Working Group on End of Life Issues. In the past year or so, Feit has published three articles in the metaphysical foundations of bioethics and in the philosophy of medicine. His essay, “Harm and the Concept of Medical Disorder,” was published in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics earlier this year. Another essay, “Comparative Harm, Creation, and Death,” was published in Utilitas in 2016. His newest piece, “Harming by Failing to Benefit,” was just published online at Ethical Theory and Moral Practice and is forthcoming in print.
Dr. Kershnar leads the new Working Group on Philosophical Foundations of Bioethics and is also a member of several other Romanell Center groups. Kershnar published “Quantifying Health Across Populations” in Bioethics in 2016, and is also the author of several recent articles on the morality of abortion. His new book, “Does the Pro-Life Worldview Make Sense?: Abortion, Hell, and Violence Against Abortion Doctors,” was just published by Routledge.
