This fall, the Bioethics Department of the Lewis School of Health Science launched its new undergraduate bioethics minor at Clarkson. A National Endowment for the Humanities Connections grant supported the development of the minor and is sponsoring a speaker series to celebrate. The next speaker in the fall series, Elizabeth Reis, PhD will present a talk entitled, “How Anti-Trans Health Legislation Harms Intersex Care.” Dr. Reis is a professor at the Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York where she teaches courses on Medical Ethics; Reproductive Technologies; Gender, Sex, and Bioethics; and Disability Studies. She graduated from Smith College and received her Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Berkeley. Reis is the author of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex (2nd edition 2021); Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England; and the editor of American Sexual Histories. She has published essays in the Hastings Center Report, Bioethics Forum, Journal of American History, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, the New York Times, and TIME Magazine. Reis is a member of the Ethics Committee at New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Hospital and an editor of Nursing Clio, a collaborative online journal that focuses on the intersection of gender, history, and medicine. She is a former board member of interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth and a current board member of Talia’s Voice: Projects for Patient Safety.
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