Charlotte Duffee

Charlotte Duffee, Ph.D., is a Research Associate with the Human Flourishing Program, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Civic Life and Leadership at UNC-Chapel Hill, and a Research Fellow at the Elm Institute.

She specializes in history and philosophy, with a special focus on the medical construction of tragedy as a window into broader cultural sensibilities about flourishing and its application in empirical research and policy. She has written on suffering, moral distress, pain, and moral injury, and is currently at work on ennobling responses to tragedy, such as magnanimity. Charlotte’s research agenda recuperates the intellectual history of tragic topics to better identify and examine conceptual assumptions in contemporary ethical and empirical research, with an eye toward measure refinement and assessment for treatment in end-of-life care. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Bioethics, Scientific Reports, PAIN, the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, and more. Through UNC-Chapel Hill, Charlotte is also involved in civil discourse initiatives concerning divisive issues in medicine, understood as a factor in community health. Charlotte also hosts A-KID-EMIA, a podcast on parental flourishing in academia funded by the American Philosophical Association and the Elm Institute.

She earned her Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Toronto, where she also received a M.A. and a B.A. in Philosophy. She holds additional M.A. degrees in Philosophy from the New School and in Bioethics from the New York University School of Global Public Health.

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