The Art of Flourishing

Liz Bowen is Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University and a Presidential Scholar at The Hastings Center. She is a disability studies scholar and clinical ethicist trained in literary studies, whose research explores how cultural narratives of disability shape public perceptions of ethical responsibility. She has published widely in both scholarly and popular venues including Scientific American, TheBeliever, Boston Review, Public Books, English Literary History, and Disability Studies Quarterly.

Joel Michael Reynolds is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies at Georgetown University, Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Faculty in the Georgetown University School of Medicine and Medical Center, and Senior Bioethics Advisor to and Fellow of The Hastings Center. Reynolds is the author or co-editor of six books as well as over sixty scholarly publications. They founded The Journal of Philosophy of Disability and co-founded the book series Oxford Studies in Disability, Ethics, and Society.

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is professor emerita of English and bioethics at Emory University. She is a Hastings Center Fellow and senior advisor, a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar, a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is co-editor of About Us: Essays from the New York Times about Disability by People with Disabilities and author of Staring: How We Look and several other books.

Erik Parens is a Senior Research Scholar at The Hastings Center and Director of the Center’s Initiative in Bioethics and the Humanities. He is the author or editor of several books in bioethics, including Shaping Our Selves: On Technology, Flourishing, and a Habit of Thinking, as well as numerous articles and commentaries for academic journals and general-interest publications.