RGT
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is a bioethicist, author, educator, humanities scholar, and thought leader in disability justice and culture.
RGT’s newest collection, Freak Inheritance: Eugenics and Extraordinary Bodies in Performance, is the long-awaited follow-up to her field-defining book Freakery. Her 2016 op-ed, “Becoming Disabled,” was the inaugural article in the ongoing weekly series in the New York Times, and she co-edited this series into the collection About Us: Essays from the Disability Series.
RGT is available for consulting and speaking on health care ethics, program building and curriculum development, equity and inclusion, accessibility, and disability culture and arts.
- “The Body She Had.” Article in Plough. (PDF)
- “Encountering Disability Through Wonder,” Special Issue of Perspectives in Biology and Medicine edited by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Devan Stahl. (PDF of Table of Contents)
- “What Misfitting Makes.” Article in Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology (2024). (PDF)
- “How We Got to CRISPR: Reflections on the Dilemma of Being Human.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine.
- “The Dark Side of CRISPR” Op-ed for Scientific American (with Sandy Sufian).
- Articles and Open Peer Commentaries in The American Journal of Bioethics:
- “Putting a Face on WET Recipients.” Article in The American Journal of Bioethics (2024).
- “A Disability Critique of the Comparative View.” Open Peer Commentary in The American Journal of Bioethics written with Rebecca Mueller, Amber Knight, and Sandy Sufian (2024).
- “Narrative Equity in Genomic Screening at the Population Level.” Open Peer Commentary in The American Journal of Bioethics written with S.A. Larson (2023).
- “When Anti-Discrimination Discriminates.” Article with Harold Braswell in The American Journal of Bioethics (2023). (PDF)
- “Rethinking Fetal Personhood in Conceptualizing Roe.” Open Peer Commentary in The American Journal of Bioethics, written with Joel Michael Reynolds (2022).
- “The Moral Work of a Beautiful Story.” Distinguished lecture at the University of Virginia’s IHGC Personhoods Lab, sponsored by UVA’s Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures.
- “Changing the Story: Narrative Ethics Meets Disability Bioethics.” Speaker at Georgetown University’s Program in Disability Studies lecture on disability bioethics and reproductive ethics.
- “Keynote: Time Traveling with Gregor Samsa, or what you can do with six legs.” Keynote Speaker at Oxford Kafka24 – Talk Series on Kafka and Disability (presented by University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries).
- “Monstrosities and Metamorphosis in More-Than-Human Worlds.” Speaker at Oxford Kafka24 – Talk Series on Kafka and Disability (presented by University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries).
- “CRISPR, Gene Editing, and Metamorphosis.” Speaker at Oxford Kafka24 – Talk Series on Kafka and Disability (presented by University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries).
- “Disability Bioethics: a Path to Realizing Equality.” Presentation in the series “Stories for Survivability: How We Talk about Disability Ethics and Why It Matters” at the UNC Charlotte Center for Professional and Applied Ethics.
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