Faculty

Patricia Illingworth

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Office: 361 Holmes Hall
Phone: (617) 373-4167
E-Mail: pillingw@lynx.neu.edu
Office Hours: by appointment

Patricia Illingworth is an Associate Professor at Northeastern University. Professor Illingworth has expertise in both philosophy and law. She teaches courses in medical and business ethics, bioethics, and health policy and law. She is a member of the Human Rights Committee of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and the Ethics Committee of the Mount Auburn Hospital, both affiliated with Harvard Medical School. Professor Illingworth has written two books, AIDS and the Good Society (Routledge 1991) and Trusting Medicine: The Ethics of Managed Care (under review). Professor Illingworth has published a number of articles in scholarly journals on professional ethics, the ethics of managed care and other issues that overlap business and medical ethics. She has held fellowships at both Harvard Medical School and Harvard Law School. Professor Illingworth has been admitted to the Massachusetts Bar.

Recent Publications

AIDS and the Good Society, (Routledge, 1990).

“In Our Best Interest: Meeting Moral Duties to LGB Adolescent Students, (with Timothy Murphy), forthcoming in The Journal of Social Philosophy.

“The Dilemma of International Property Rights for Pharmaceuticals: the Tension Between Securing Access of the Poor to Medicines and Committing to International Agreements, (with Jillian Clare Cohen), Developing World Bioethics, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2003 pp. 27-48.

“Trust: The Scarcest of Medical Resources, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Vol. 27, No. 1, 2002 pp. 30-46.

“Employer Leadership in the Era of Workplace Rationing, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2001 pp. 172-183.

Works in Progress

Trusting Medicine: The Moral Costs of Managed Care, (under review)

Ethical Healthcare, (Forthcoming with Prentice Hall; co-edited with Wendy Parmet)

The Power of Pills, (co-edited with Udo Schuklenk and Jillian Claire Cohen)