Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Bioethicist and author

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is professor emerita of English and bioethics at Emory University, as well as a disability justice and culture thought leader. She teaches disability studies, bioethics, American literature and culture and feminist theory. Her work develops the field of critical disability studies in the health humanities to bring forward disability access, inclusion and identity to a broad range of institutions and communities.

Articles by: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

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'Enhancing' future generations with CRISPR is a road to a 'new eugenics,' says ethicist Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

By Rosemarie Garland-Thomson published

"Eugenics seeks to improve by eliminating the characteristics considered at a particular time and place to be disadvantages and to maximize those considered normal."