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Elizabeth Lanphier, PhD,MS

Assistant Professor of Clinical-Affiliate

Pediatrics | College of Medicine

Education/Credentials
  • Fellowship: Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Clinical Ethics)
  • Doctoral Degree: Vanderbilt University (Philosophy)
  • Master's Degree: Columbia University (Narrative Medicine)
Contact Information
Research Interests

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

Peer Reviewed Publications

Palmaccio-Lawton, Samantha Joan; Markham, Kara B; Barnes-Davis, Maria; Lanphier, Elizabeth 2024. If You Are in the Chart, You Help Chart the Course. The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, 24 2, 58-61

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

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

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

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

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

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, ,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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