Driven by a global vision of clean, just, and ethical health care and technology through the development of strategies and policies
Cristina Richie
Lecturer; Cohort Lead, Data and Artificial Intelligence Ethics
Research Areas of Expertise:
clean, just and ethical health care and technology
Research Summary:
Cristina Richie’s research is driven by a global vision of clean, just, and ethical health care and technology through the development of strategies and policies. In addition to her monographs, Principles of Green Bioethics: Sustainability in Health Care (Michigan State University Press, 2019); Environmental Ethics and Medical Reproduction (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), she is the author of over fifty articles in journals including The Lancet, American Journal of Bioethics, the Journal of Medical Ethics, and the Hastings Center Report.
Key Publications:
Monographs:
Environmental Ethics and Medical Reproduction (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2023).
Principles of Green Bioethics: Sustainability in Health Care (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2019).
Edited Volumes:
Handbook of Environmental Bioethics (prospectus under review at Oxford University Press).
Journal Articles and Reports:
“The eco-ethical contribution of Menico Torchio—a forgotten pioneer of European Bioethics,” Co authors: Amir Muzur and Iva Rinčić, Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, forthcoming.
“‘Green Informed Consent’ in the Classroom, Clinic, and Consultation Room,” Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy: A European Journal (forthcoming).
“Environmental Ethics Beyond Conferences: A Response to the WCB Bioethics in Qatar,” Bioethics (2023): 🔗
“Planetaire gezondheid: ethische implicaties voor gezondheidszorg,” Co author Marcel Verweij, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (“Planetary Health: Ethical Implications for Health Care,” Dutch Journal of Medicine) 167 (2023):D7443.
“Concerns About Climate Activism In Clinical Practice- Author Reply,” Co authors: David S. Jones and Aaron S. Kesselheim, The Lancet, 401, no. 10390 (2023):1772.
“Re-imagining Research Ethics to Include Environmental Sustainability: A Principled Approach, Including a Case Study of Data-Driven Health Research,” Co author: Gabrielle Samuel. Journal of Medical Ethics 49, no. 6 (2023): 428-433.
“Climate Change and the Prescription Pad,” Co authors: David S. Jones and Aaron S. Kesselheim, The Lancet, 401, no.10372 (2023): 178-179.
“Carbon Emissions from Overuse of US Healthcare Delivery: Medical and Ethical Problem,” Co author: Cassandra L. Thiel. Hastings Center Report 52, no. 4 (2022): 10-16.
“Environmentally Sustainable Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care,” Bioethics 36, no. 5 (2022): 547-555.
“Environmental Sustainability and the Carbon Emissions of Pharmaceuticals,” Journal of Medical Ethics 48, no. 5 (2022): 334–337.
“A Theology of Human Limitation and Medicine,” Ethics & Medicine: An International Journal of Bioethics 37, no. 1 (2021): 49-59.
“Climate Change Related Health Hazards and the Academic Responsibility of Evangelical Bioethicists,” Ethics & Medicine: An International Journal of Bioethics 36, no. 3 (2020): 175-188.
“Can United States Healthcare Become Environmentally Sustainable?: Towards Green Healthcare Reform,” Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 48, no. 4 (2020): 643-652.
“An Evangelical Environmental Bioethics: A Proposal,” Ethics & the Environment 25, no. 2 (2020): 29-44.
“Catholic Health Care’s Responsibility to the Environment,” Health Care Ethics USA 28, no. 2 (2020): 2-8.
“Sustainability and Bioethics: Where We Have Been, Where Are, Where We Are Going,” The New Bioethics 26, no. 2 (2020): 82-90.
“Whose Interests are Advanced by LGBT Bioethics?,” Ethics, Medicine and Public Health – Éthique, Médecine et Politiques Publiques 13 (2020): 100467.
“Individual Emergency Preparedness Efforts: A Social Justice Perspective,” Nursing Ethics 27, no. 1 (2020): 184-193. With Charleen C. McNeill and Danita Alfred.
“Postmortem Sperm Retrieval and Posthumous Grandparenthood in the United States and Internationally,” Global Bioethics Enquiry 8, no. 1 (2020): 13-22.
“Sex, not Gender. A Plea for Accuracy,” Experimental & Molecular Medicine 51, no. 133 (2019): 1.
“Not Sick: Liberal, Trans, and CripFeminist Critiques of Medicalization,” Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 16, no. 3 (2019): 375–387.
“A Queer, Feminist Bioethics Critique of Facial Feminization Surgery,” American Journal of Bioethics 18, no. 12 (2018): 33-35.
“Is Fossil Fuel Investment a Sin?,” Health Care Ethics USA 26, no. 1 (2018): 1-8. With Erin Lothes Biviano, Daniel DiLeo, and Tobias Winright.
Book Chapters:
“Climate Change and Health Care Education,” in Applied Philosophy for Health Professions Education: A Journey Towards Mutual Understanding, Megan Brown, Mario Veen & Gabrielle Finn, eds. (Springer, 2022): 233-250.
“Greening the End of Life: Refracting Clinical Ethics through an Ecological Prism,” in Catholic Bioethics and Social Justice: The Praxis of US Health Care in a Globalized World, M. Therese Lysaught and Michael McCarthy, eds. (Collegeville: Liturgical Academic Press, 2018), 129-142.
Volume Entries:
“Sustainability and Bioethics,” in Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics, D. C. Poff and A. C. Michalos, eds. (Springer, 2022).