Associate Professor of Bioethics

Contact Info.
Email: christopher.kaposy@med.mun.ca

Author of The Beautiful Unwanted: Down Syndrome in Myth, Memoir, and Bioethics (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023)

Author of Choosing Down Syndrome: Ethics and New Prenatal Testing Technologies (MIT Press, 2018)

• Publications
• Courses
• Blogs
• Media Coverage of Choosing Down Syndrome
• External Affiliations

Chris’s disciplinary background is in philosophy. He graduated with a B.A. (honours) from McMaster University, an M.A. from Concordia University, and a Ph.D. from SUNY-Stony Brook. At Stony Brook, Chris’s doctoral supervisor was Dr. Eva Feder Kittay.

Chris is a clinical ethicist with the Provincial Health Ethics Network of Newfoundland and Labrador (PHENNL). To request a clinical ethics consultation, please call PHENNL at 709-777-8940.

You can follow Chris on twitter @ChrisKaposy