Colleen Hanson - Graduate Students - Department of Philosophy

Colleen Hanson

Graduate Student

Area of Interest: Philosophy of Medicine, Medical Ethics, and Epistemology

E-mail: crhanson@humnet.ucla.edu Office: Dodd 371

Office Hours: Wednesday 1PM - 3PM in Dodd 300C

Education

BA: University of Puget Sound
MA: University of California, Los Angeles

Research

My primary area of interest is in philosophy of pregnancy. I’m concerned with questions about the nature of the relationship between a fetus and its gestator (Is it part of, or merely contained within the gestator?), the ways in which we approach learning about that relationship (What kinds of evidence do we need? Do we look purely at the biological information about pregnancy, or should we ask gestators about what it feels like?), and how we use our insights into that relationship to improve maternity care in medicine.