Elizabeth Lanphier

Elizabeth Lanphier , PhD,MS

Assistant Professor of Clinical-Affiliate

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Professional Summary

Elizabeth Lanphier is a faculty member in the Ethics Center and in the Division of General and Community Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the UC College of Medicine and a Research Assistant Professor in the UC Department of Philosophy. Elizabeth is also affiliated faculty in the UC Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department and Center for Public Engagement With Science as well as a non-resident Fellow at the George Mason Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy.

In addition to her published scholarship in peer reviewed journals and book volumes, Elizabeth has written for a variety of outlets including the Hastings Bioethics Forum and Ms. Magazine. Her research has also been featured in "The ethical questions raised by COVID-19 vaccines: 5 essential reads" and "50 years after Roe, many ethics questions shape the abortion debate" in The Conversation as well as "What is Trauma Informed Care?" in Health, and "We're All Second Guessing Ourselves" in The Atlantic. She was quoted in TIME Magazine for the article "How Do You Even Calculate Covid-19 Risk Anymore?" and was an expert cited in "Motivated Reasoning: Emily Oster's COVID Narratives and the Attack on Public Education" in Protean Magazine.

Elizabeth currently chairs the Committee on Accessibility and Inclusion for the North American Society for Social Philosophy, and is an elected Board Member of the Bioethics Network of Ohio. From 2021-2024 she was a co-chair of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Affinity Group for the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities.

Education

Master's Degree: Columbia University New York, NY, 2013 (Narrative Medicine)

Doctoral Degree: Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN, 2019 (Philosophy)

Fellowship: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN , 2020 (Clinical Ethics)

Research and Practice Interests

Clinical Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Feminist Ethics, Shared and Collective Responsibility, Rights Theory, Consent, Complicity, Trauma Informed Care, Humanitarianism

Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications

Lanphier, Elizabeth; Harris, Kelly W (2020. ) The Strawman at the Pox Party.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, , 20 (9 ) ,73-75 More Information

Lanphier, Elizabeth; Fyfe, Shannon (2020. ) The Moral Weight of Preferences: Death, Sex, and Dementia.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, , 20 (8 ) ,76-78 More Information

Matose, Takunda; Lanphier, Elizabeth (2020. ) Rights Don't Stand Alone: Responsibility for Rights in a Pandemic.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, , 20 (7 ) ,169-172 More Information

Lanphier, Elizabeth; Anani, Uchenna (2019. ) Narrative Ethics and Intersectionality.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, , 19 (2 ) ,29-31 More Information

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2016. ) The Internet as Spectator Disclosure: Consent, Community and Responsibility in Patricia Lockwood’s Viral Poem ‘Rape Joke’ .American Studies Journal, , 61 ,

Lanphier, Elizabeth; Mckiernan, Amy (2020. ) Thinking About Thought Experiments in Ethics .Teaching Ethics, , 19 (1 ) ,17-34 More Information

Elizabeth Lanphier, Takunda Matose, Abu Ali Abdur'Rahman (2020. ) (Re)Imagining (Re)Habilitation An Argument from Death Row.Public Philosophy Journal, , 2 (2 ) ,

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Lanphier, Elizabeth (2020. ) “How is the Truth to be Said?” Abortion Narratives in Feminist Activism, Politics, and Philosophy .Rejoinder, , 5 ,

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2020. ) Ethical Home: Making, Remaking, and Unmaking Moral Community.Social Philosphy Today, , 36 (1 ) ,105-124 More Information

Fyfe, Shannon; Lanphier, Elizabeth (2020. ) Why Ethical Sex Demands (the Category of) Nonconsensual Sex.Southwest Philosophical Review , , 36 (1 ) ,135-143 More Information

Lanphier, Elizabeth; Anani, Uchenna E (2021. ) Trauma Informed Ethics Consultation.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, , 1-13 More Information

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2021. ) A Problem of Self-Ownership for Reproductive Justice.Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees, , 30 (2 ) ,312-327 More Information

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2021. ) Aporia of the Gift: Precision Medicine's Obligations Without Expectations.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, , 21 (4 ) ,83-85 More Information

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2021. ) Physician outreach during a pandemic: shared or collective responsibility?.Journal of medical ethics, , More Information

Lanphier, Elizabeth; Mosley, Luke; Antommaria, Armand H Matheny (2021. ) Assessing Visitor Policy Exemption Requests During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Pediatrics, , More Information

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2021. ) Trust, Transparency, and Trauma Informed Care.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, , 21 (5 ) ,38-40 More Information

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2021. ) Narrative and Medicine: Premises, Practices, Pragmatism.Perspectives in biology and medicine, , 64 (2 ) ,211-234 More Information

Anani, Uchenna; Lanphier, Elizabeth; Feltman, Dalia (2021. ) Trading Cultural Competency for Trauma Informed Care.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, , 21 (9 ) ,13-16 More Information

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2021. ) Breaking Down Communication: Narrative Medicine and its Discontents.Social Philosophy Today, , 37 , More Information

Lanphier, Elizabeth; Fyfe, Shannon (2021. ) Age-not sex or gender-makes the case of Ellie Anderson Complex.Journal of medical ethics, , More Information

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2021. ) Friends and Citizens in Plato’s Crito: A Revisionary Relational Reading.Philosophy in the Contemporary World, , 27 (1 ) ,44-67 More Information

Lanphier, Elizabeth; Fyfe, Shannon (2021. ) Pediatric Off-Label Use of Covid-19 Vaccines: Ethical and Legal Considerations.The Hastings Center report, , More Information

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2022. ) Abortion and the Intersection of Ethics, Activism, and Politics.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, , 22 (8 ) ,72-74 More Information

Fyfe, Shannon; Lanphier, Elizabeth; Peterson, Andrew Neurorights for Incarcerated Persons: Should We Curb Inflation?.AJOB neuroscience, , 13 (3 ) ,165-168 More Information

Antommaria, Armand H Matheny; Lanphier, Elizabeth (2022. ) Supporting Marginalized Decision-Maker's Autonomy(ies).The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, , 22 (6 ) ,22-24 More Information

Lanphier, Elizabeth; Bessias, Sophia (2022. ) Stepping Up or Stepping Back: FDA Roles in Producing and Shaping Knowledge of Pediatric Covid-19 Vaccines.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, , 22 (10 ) ,26-28 More Information

Antommaria, Armand H Matheny; Lanphier, Elizabeth; Housholder, Anne; McGowan, Michelle (2022. ) A Mixed Methods Analysis of Requests for Religious Exemptions to a COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement.AJOB empirical bioethics, , 1-8 More Information

Lanphier, Elizabeth; Anani, Uchenna E (2022. ) Enriching the Theory and Practice of Trauma Informed Ethics Consultation.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, , 22 (9 ) ,W7-W9 More Information

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2022. ) Bioethics and Civic Education in a Post-Roe America.Perspectives in biology and medicine, , 65 (4 ) ,654-663 More Information

Lanphier, Elizabeth; Churchill, Larry R (2022. ) Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue on the Translational Work of Bioethics.Perspectives in biology and medicine, , 65 (4 ) ,515-520 More Information

Lanphier, Elizabeth; Lomotey-Nakon, Leah (2023. ) Birth, trust and consent: reasonable mistrust and trauma-informed remedies.Journal of medical ethics, , 49 (9 ) ,624-625 More Information

Miller, Emily; Tang Girdwood, Sonya; Shah, Anita; Anyigbo, Chidiogo; Lanphier, Elizabeth (2023. ) Professionalism or prejudice? Modelling roles, risking microaggressions.Journal of medical ethics, , More Information

Lomotey-Nakon, Leah; Lanphier, Elizabeth (2023. ) Expanding the Frame: An Afrofuturist Response to Artificial Womb Technology.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, , 23 (5 ) ,99-101 More Information

Boxell, Lauren; Lanphier, Elizabeth (2023. ) Measuring Moral Distress: Improving the Tools by Educating Clinicians.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, , 23 (4 ) ,61-63 More Information

Lanphier, Elizabeth; Anani, Uchenna E (2023. ) Whose Trauma? Who's Trauma Informed?.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, , 23 (1 ) ,98-100 More Information

Smith, Hunter Jackson; Earl, Jake; Lanphier, Elizabeth (2023. ) Over-the-Counter Oral Contraceptives in the Context of State Abortion Bans.Journal of general internal medicine, , More Information

Book Chapter

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2019 ) Witnessing Illness: Phenomenology of Photographic Self Portraiture Bodies and Transitions in the Health Humanities .(pp. 132-142).New York, Routledge

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2018 ) Humanitarianism: Neutrality, Impartiality and Humanity Cambridge Handbook on Just War .(pp. 273-290).New York, Cambridge University Press

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2019 ) Ageing and Aesthetic Responsibility Ageing in an Ageing Society .(pp. 99-124).Sheffield, Equinox Press

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2021 ) Complexity and Contradiction: Intimacy, Testimony, and Care in Humanitarian Aid Care Work and Medical Travel .(pp. 155-176).Lexington Books

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2021 ) An Institutional Ethic of Care Applying Nonideal Theory to Bioethics: Living and Dying in a Nonideal World .(pp. 169 -193).Cham, Springer

Lanphier, Elizabeth and Hannah Cory (2021 ) The weight of imaginative resistance and pedagogy for narrative transformation Weight Bias in Health Education: Critical Perspectives for Pedagogy and Practice .(pp. 100-112).New York, Routledge (Co-Author)

Lanphier, Elizabeth and M. Forrest Behne (2023 ) Prisons, Pandemics, and Personal Responsibility Ohio Under COVID .(pp. 194-216).Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press (Co-Author)

Additional Publications

Editorial

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2020. ) Bill Lee’s Pro-Life Message is Contradicted by Death Penalty Stance .

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2020. ) Prisoners, at Great Risk, Should Get Vaccine Early .

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2020. ) Where No Lives Matter .

Fyfe, Shannon; Lanphier, Elizabeth (2021. ) Is a Minor’s Decision to Take Puberty-Blockers Exceptional? .

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2021. ) Ohio's vaccination plan used to include incarcerated people. Now it doesn't .

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2021. ) Vaccine guilt is good – as long it doesn’t stop you from getting a shot .

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2021. ) Do doctors engaging in advocacy speak for themselves or their profession? .

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2021. ) Vaccine Guilt and Moral Emotions .

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2021. ) My Body, Whose Choice? .

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2021. ) With abortion heading back to the Supreme Court, is it time to retire the ‘my body, my choice’ slogan? .

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2021. ) Parents, Covid, and Trauma-Informed Choices .

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2021. ) Should We Enroll our Child in a Covid-19 Vaccine Trial .

Lanphier, Elizabeth; Fyfe, Shannon (2021. ) Is It Ethical to Prohibit Off-Label Use of Covid-19 Vaccines in Kids? .

Lanphier, Elizabeth; Fyfe, Shannon (2021. ) ‘Off-label’ use is common in medicine – a bioethicist and legal philosopher explain why the COVID-19 vaccines are different .

Lanphier, Elizabeth; Fyfe, Shannon (2022. ) With Pediatric Hospitalizations Rising, Reconsider Off-Label Covid Vaccination for Young Children .

Lanphier, Elizabeth (2022. ) Back to School: The Covid Vaccination Choice .

Lanphier, Elizabeth; Earl, Jake (2023. ) Abortion restrictions put hospital ethics committees in the spotlight – but what do they do? . (Co-Author)

Bessias, Sophia; Harbin, Ami; Lanphier, Elizabeth (2023. ) Covid is Surging- Most Young Children Are Still Unvaccinated . (Co-Author)

Contact Information

Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Ethics Center
3333 Burnet Ave MLC 15006
Cincinnati  Ohio, 45229
elizabeth.lanphier@cchmc.org