Aana Marie Vigen, Ph.D.
| Aana Marie Vigen, Ph.D. | ||
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Title: | Assistant Professor, Director of Majors |
| Office: | Crown Center, 309 | |
| Phone: | 773.508.2342 | |
| E-mail: | avigen@luc.edu | |
Personal Information
Aana Marie Vigen is an Assistant Professor of Ethics at Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Vigen earned a B.A. in Spanish, Religion, and Hispanic Studies from St. Olaf College. She earned an M.A. in Theology and Ethics jointly conferred by the Graduate Theological Union and Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. She earned a Ph.D. in Social and Theological Ethics from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. She is a member of the Society of Christian Ethics (SCE), the American Academy of Religion (AAR), and the American Association of Bioethics and the Humanities (ASBH). Dr. Vigen is also an active lay member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and is currently serving on the national ELCA Genetics Taskforce. She offers courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Current Work:
Dr. Vigen is co-editing (with Patricia Beattie Jung) a volume on Christianity, Gender, and Human Sexuality: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue to be published by early 2010. She will also contribute a chapter to this volume. In addition, Dr. Vigen is writing an article on the issue of undocumented immigrants and U.S. healthcare.
Interests:
Dr. Vigen's area of specialization is healthcare and medical ethics. In particular, she is interested in quality of and access to healthcare along with racial-ethnic and socio-economic disparities in care. She incorporates an interdisciplinary method of study, drawing upon the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, ethnography, and theology. Additional scholarly interests include: The Intersection of Christian Social Ethics & Bioethics; Global Health & Healthcare; Notions of "Living & Dying Well"; Immigration & Ethics; Protestant Ethics; Feminist Ethics; White Anti-Racism; Ethnography, Theology & Ethics.
Selected Publications
Women, Ethics, and Inequality in U.S. Healthcare: "To Count among the Living" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
"To Hear and To Be Accountable Across Difference: An Ethic of White Listening" a chapter in Disrupting White Supremacy from Within: White People on What WE Need to Do (Pilgrim Press, 2004)
"For Healing and Wholeness," in Rebecca Todd Peters and Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty, eds. To Do Justice: Engaging Progressive Christians in Social Action. Westminster/John Knox Press: 2008.
RESOURCE RECOMMENDATIONS
Web Resources on Health, Healthcare:
The Kaiser Family Foundation: www.kff.org
*Terrific information on myriad topics: Medicare, Disparities, HIV-AIDS, Women, etc. For example: 10 Myths about the Uninsured: http://www.kff.org/uninsured/7307.cfm
The Commonwealth Fund: www.commonwealthfund.org
See for example: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Health Care: A Chartbook (2008) http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=672908
"Why Not the Best? Results from the National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2008" (2008) www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=692682
The ELCA Social Statement on Healthcare: "Caring for Health: Our Shared Endeavor" online: http://www.elca.org/What-We-Believe/Social-Issues/Social-Statements/Health-and-Healthcare.aspx
Frontline Program on Global Health & Healthcare: www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/
A PBS Series -- RX for Survival: A Global Health Challenge: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/
Global Health Facts & News: http://www.globalhealthfacts.org
Partners in Health: www.pih.org
Doctors without Borders: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org
Books Relevant for Health, Healthcare, & Ethics:
Lisa Cahill, Theological Bioethics: Participation, Justice, & Change (2005)
Tina Cassidy, Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born (2006)
Margaret Farley, Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics (2007)
Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power (2005)
Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains (about the work of Paul Farmer) (2003)
David Moller, Dancing with Broken Bones: Portraits of Death and Dying Among Inner-City Poor (2004)
Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2004)
Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty (2006)
Jeffrey Sachs, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008)
Debora Spar, The Baby Business (2006)
Harriet A. Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (2006)
Traci West, Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women's Lives Matter (2006)