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Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program

Faculty Directory

Philosophy

Battin, Margaret P.
341B OSH
Phone: 581-6608
E-mail: battin@utah.edu

General Research Interest: Bioethics; Bioethics & Medical Ethics; Reproductive issues including population growth; teen pregnancy, male contraception; medical ethics- especially euthanasia, suicide, physician-assisted suicide, end-of-life issues, ethical issues in organized religion. Ethical issues in infectious disease; ethical issues in drug use; medicine in non-western cultures.

Student Participation: Library and database research; identifying sources; abstracting documents & articles, scanning of literature, compilation and preparation of manuscripts.

Background Needed: Library usage; familiarity with basic reference style, inquisitive mind.

Outside Majors: Pre-Medicine, English, Communication, History, Languages.

Key Words: reproduction, population, reproductive rights, bioethics, medical ethics, euthanasia, suicide, physician-assisted suicide, religion.

Student generated projects may be considered.


Francis, Leslie P.
520 HPEB
Phone: 581-3489/4289
Email: francisl@law.utah.edu

General Research Interest: Bioethics; law & medicine, professional ethics, especially of health care professionals & lawyers.

Student Participation: Researching the current literature on issues of health policy & professional ethics, health care rationing & informed consent in advanced industrialized economies including our own.

Background Needed: Ability to read applied philosophy; familiarity with the law library & the Eccles Health Science Library or willingness to explore! Upper division philosophy or political science courses.

Outside Majors: Philosophy, Political Science, Economics, Health Administration.

Key Words: Ethics, professional ethics, law/lawyers, bioethics, justice.

Student generated projects may be possible.


Anya Plutynski  
341 OSH
Phone: 581-7424
Email: Plutynski@philosophy.utah.edu 

General Research Interest: Philosophy of science, history of science, espeically early 20th C. genetics and evolutionary theory, ecology and environmental studies, history of modern philosophy 

Student Participation: Literature review, find and copy articles and books.

Background Needed: Biology, especially evolutionary biology, genetics, and/or history and philosophy 

Outside Majors: Biology, Environmental Studies, History.

Key Words: evolution, genetics, philosophy, ecology, environmental ethics

Student generated projects may be possible.


Thaylos, Mariam

341 OSH
Phone: 581-3473
Email: mthalos@philosophy.utah.edu

General research interests: Game theory, decision theory, evolution and behavior, ecology, altruism, social cooperation.

Student participation: Library research, internet research.

Background needed: None.

Outside majors: Psychology, anthropology, biology, behavioral sciences, management, economics, political science, sociology.


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