Description of Bioethics Expertise
Research and Teaching Expertise
* Disability and bioethics
* Ethical questions in family caregiving
* Humanities and arts in medical education
* Life writing about illness, disability, medical practice, and science
* Narrative and bioethics
Ethics and Humanities Fellowships
* Harvard Medical School, Fellowship in Medical Ethics
* Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Fellowship in Medical Humanities and Bioethics
* Rehabilitation Hospital of Chicago, Fellowship in Disability Ethics
Teaching Appointments, selected
* University of Pennsylvania; Center for Bioethics, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering
* Haverford College
* Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Carol Schilling, earned a Ph.D. in English from Penn and a B.A. in English from Drew University. Her work in literary studies, which focused on late 19th to mid-20th century American writing, has explored intersections between literature and the biological sciences, with special attention to topics in evolution and the discovery of the structure of DNA. She is currently working on two projects concerning the narrative and ethical status of family caregivers. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database http://litmed.med.nyu.edu and is a Fellow in the College of Physicians of Philadelphia http://www.collphyphil.org/Site/The_College_of_Physicians_of_Philadelphia.html, where she serves on the Executive Committee of the Section on Medicine and the Arts.
Recent Print Publications
“Marvin’s Room: Family Caregiving and the Ethics of Responsibility.” The Picture of Health: Medical Ethics and the Movies. Eds. Henri Holt, Silvia Quadrelli, and Lester Friedman. New York: Oxford UP, 2011.
“Feathers Rose from the Floor as I Walked through the Doors of the ER.” The Patient. Eds. Harold Schweizer and Kimberly Myers. Bucknell UP, 2010.
“Disability Perspectives on Bioethics.” Chapter 17 in The Penn Center Guide to Bioethics. Eds. Vardit Ratvinsky, Autumn Fiester, & Arthur Caplan. Springer, 2009.
“Making Meaning.” Invited essay for the Literature and Medicine column of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) Exchange, vol. 9, no.1 (Winter 2006): 3,5.
Recent Conferences and Lectures, selected
“Whose Story Is It Anyway? Recent Disability Perspectives on Medicine and Bioethics.” PENN Medical School Forum on Medicine and the Humanities. Philadelphia, PA. 30 April 2010.
“’What struck me most. . . . :’ Wonder, Reflection, and Disability Perspectives in Medical Education.” Keynote Address. The Disability and Medical Humanities Project: Social and Cultural Understandings of Disability in Health Care. Disability and Medical Humanities Workshop of the Mellon Central New York Humanities Corridor. Center for Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University. Syracuse, NY. 3 December 2009.
“’As a physician, I will need to. . . :’ Reading the Patient, Writing the Future Doctor.” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Spring Humanities Conference. Books to Bedside: Translational Work in the Humanities. Chicago, IL. 25 April 2009.
“Medical Reader’s Theater: Reflecting on Physician and Patient Communication.” S. Arjmand, M.D. and C. Schilling. Society for Teaching Family Medicine Forum for Behavioral Science in Family Medicine. Chicago, IL. 29 September 2007.
“(Auto)biographies of the Face,” with “Saving Faces” artist Mark Gilbert. The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Esther M. Klein Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. 25 October 2006.
“What Is the Patient’s Family Doing Here?” Emmanuel and Robert Hart Lecture, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 25 September 2006. Work-in-Progress Ethics Seminar, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. 16 March 2006.
“On Reading the Lives of Caregivers.” International Conference on Caregiving and Carework: Theory and Practice. York University. Toronto, Canada. 6 May 2006.
“What Do Medical Students Need to Know about Patients with Disabilities?” Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. 1 May 2006.
“Vulnerable Bodies, Intimate Words: The Patient’s Family in Fiction and Memoir.” Medical Humanities Department. Pennsylvania State College of Medicine. Hershey, PA. 28 February 2006.
“The Physician and the Patient’s Family.” Institute for Ethics of the American Medical Association. Chicago, IL. 9 February 2006.
“Making Meaning of Illness and Disability: Implications for Families, Clinical Practice, and Law.” (Session Organizer) C. Schilling, J. Hauser, M.D., M. Mathes, J.D. American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. 20 October, 2005.
“A Case for Caregivers’ Stories.” Medicine and Narrative Session of the Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium. Philadelphia, PA. 9 May 2005.
“Acting Rationally in the Neuro-ICU: Moral Work in the Story of Jeffrey’s Father (in Rescuing Jeffrey).” Work-in-Progress Ethics Seminar. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. 16 December 2004.
Master of Bioethics (MBE) Courses:
* Narrative and Bioethics
* Medical Ethics in the First Person: The Contributions of Life Writing to Bioethics
* Literature, Medicine, and Ethics (College of Liberal and Professional Studies)
* Beyond Quality of Life: Disability Perspectives on Bioethics (co-taught w Teresa Blankmeyer Burke) |
