Jennifer Parks
 | Associate Professor Philosophy Department Loyola University Chicago 6525 N. Sheridan Road Chicago, IL 60626 Contact Information: Office: Crown Center, 3rd floor Lake Shore Campus Phone: 773.508.2308 Fax: 773.508.2292 E-mail: jparks1@luc.edu |
Jennifer Parks is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director for Programs in Health Care Ethics. She came to Loyola in 1997 after completing her Ph.D. at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario). Dr. Parks received her B.A. and M.A. from Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario).
Her areas of specialization include health care ethics (with a special interest in reproductive technologies), feminist theory (with a focus on feminist ethics), and social philosophy. She is currently working on the ethical issues involved in home health care.
Dr. Parks teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in health care ethics, feminist theory, and disability theory. She also regularly teaches courses for the Women's Studies program, and does ethics consulting through Loyola's Ethics Consultation Service.
She has written two books, There's No Place Like Home? Feminist Ethics and Home Health Care and (with David Ingram) The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ethics. She has also published a variety of articles which have been printed in such journals as The Hastings Center Report, Hypatia, The International Journal of Applied Philosophy, and the Journal of Medical Humanities.
