KARLA FC HOLLOWAY is 
James B. Duke Professor of English & 
Professor of Law at Duke University

                     FORTHCOMING 2013

• April 3 ~ "Ethics & DIsparities" TUSKEGEE U NATIONAL CENTER FOR BIOETHICS    
• April 10-13 ~ COLLEGE LANGUAGE ASSN "Constituting the Black Body" Lexington    
• Sept 5 2013 ~ Fayetteville State Univ. 

        
                       ARCHIVED EVENTS 

• Atelier@Duke
• NIH/NINR TownHall-Ethics@End of Life  NIH Bethesda MD
• American Studies  JFK Institute Freien Univ. Berlin
• 1/15/12 M.L.King Lecture; Bflo NY Historical Soc 
• 1/23/12 Inaugural Anna Julia Cooper Lecture;                       "When Race Matters"; Newcomb College-Tulane U
• 3/21/12 BCRW; Composing Private Bodies
• 3/27/12 Hampton Univ Read-In "Why HeLa Didn't Need Help"
• 3/29/12 Race, Law & Lit Univ MD-College Park
• 4/11/12 Ethical Dilemmas in Research Northwestern U
• 4/13/12 Af Am Studies Northwestern U
• 7/4/12  ANZASA-Australia New Zealand Am Studies Assn          Univ. of Queensland; Brisbane, AUS
•  9/25/12 Distinguished Speaker Series;  @GeorgiaTech ATL "Henrietta Lacks & Ethics of Privacy"
• 12/5/12 Carter G. Woodson Institute; University of Virginia
• 2/12/13 W.DAVID BAIRD DISTINGUISHED LECTURE;   Pepperdine University; Malibu, CA
  
• March 21 ~ NCCU; Mason-Sekora Lecture. "Legal Fictions"
• March 29 ~ "Bound by Law" Michigan State U 
  

PRIVATE BODIES, PUBLIC TEXTS
RACE, GENDER, AND A CULTURAL BIOETHICS

Karla FC Holloway...persuasively argues for a cultural ethics, an ethics which gives constitutive weight to the cultural context of those stories, especially the cultural contexts of race and gender identity.  Her discussion of the events at Memorial Medical Center after Katrina will become a classic in the field. But most importantly, she shows us that the practice of bioethics must change if it is to successfully relate to the issues raised by the thick narratives of reality."
Baruch A. Brody. Leon Jaworski Professor,  Baylor College of Medicine

"...an illuminating meditation on the social construction of personal identity, with special focus on gender and race.... This is a subtle, challenging book." Robert A. Burt. Bickel Professor of Law, Yale University

"Private Bodies/Public Texts is as powerful as it is beautifully written. Karla FC Holloway's is a very different kind of bioethics, one that challenges us to think both more broadly and more specifically about what privacy and justice mean. And she reminds us, with sometimes piercing insight, just how critical gender and race can be in making meaning out of both." Ruth R. Faden Director. Berman Institute of Bioethics & Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics Johns Hopkins University

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