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.
RGT will be a speaker at the Global Observatory for Genome Editing’s 2025 International Summit (held in-person and virtually) May 21-23, 2025.
- “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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