Harold Braswell, Ph.D.
Graduate Program Coordinator; Bicentennial Fellow; associate professor
Department of Health Care Ethics
Education
- Ph.D. Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, 2014 Emory University, Atlanta GA
- Certificate in Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- B.A., with honors, Spanish and Portuguese, 2003 Columbia University, New York City, NY
Research Interests
- Bioethics, medical anthropology, history of medicine, disability studies, medical humanities
- Currently writing a book entitled Inhospitable: How Housing Discrimination Shapes the Way We Die, under contract at Johns Hopkins University Press
Publications and Media Placements
Book
Braswell, Harold. The Crisis of US Hospice Care. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
Peer-reviewed Articles
- Braswell, Harold. 鈥淯S Hospice Structure and its Implications for the 鈥楻ight to Die鈥� Debate: an Interdisciplinary Study of the 鈥楩eeling of Being a Burden to Others.鈥欌�� Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, (September 2019): 1-10.
- Braswell, Harold. 鈥淧utting the Right to Die in its Place: Disability Rights and Physician-Assisted Suicide in the Context of US End-of-Life Care.鈥� Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, special issue 鈥淎ccommodation, Recognition, Justice: Legal Treatment of Persons with Disabilities,鈥� 72 (2018): 75-99.
- Braswell, Harold. 鈥淔rom Disability Rights to the Rights of the Dying (and back again)鈥� Laws, special issue 鈥淗ealth Care Law and the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities,鈥� 6.4 (2017).
- Braswell, Harold. 鈥淢y Two Moms: Disability, Queer Kinship, and the Maternal Subject.鈥� Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, special issue 鈥淣ew Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies,鈥� 30.1 (winter 2015): 234-250.
- Braswell, Harold, and Howard I. Kushner. 鈥淪uicide, Social Integration, and Masculinity in the U.S. Military.鈥� Social Science & Medicine, 74.4 (2012): 530-36.
- Braswell, Harold. 鈥�Neuropsychoanalytic&苍产蝉辫;叠颈辞别迟丑颈肠蝉.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience, 3.3 (2012): 3-6.
- Braswell, Harold. 鈥淐an there be a Disability Studies Theory of 鈥楨nd-of-Life Autonomy?鈥欌�� Disability Studies Quarterly, 31.4 (2011).
- Braswell, Harold. 鈥淚n Search of a Wide-Angle Lens.鈥� Hastings Center Report, 41.3 (May-June 2011): 19-21.
- Braswell, Harold. 鈥淭aking Representation Seriously: Rethinking Bioethics through Clint Eastwood鈥檚 Million Dollar Baby.鈥� Journal of Medical Humanities, 32. 2 (2011): 77-87.
Articles In Books
Braswell, Harold. "Euthanasia." Keywords in Disability, New York: NYU Press, 2014.
Public Scholarship
- "Coming to Jesus." , January 2020
- "Love and Other Disabilities." , June 2019
- "Why Do Police Keep Seeing a Person's Disability as a Provocation?" , August 25, 2014,
Honors and Awards
- 2023 Donald G. Brennan Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching (College of Arts and Science)
- 2022 Beaumont Scholarship Research Award (for project 鈥淢apping the Relationship between Hospice and Anti-Black Housing Discrimination in Saint Louis, Missouri鈥�)
- 2021 Faculty Excellence Award for Excellence in Diversity and Social Justice (Student Government Association)
- SLU Scholarly Works Award (for the book The Crisis of US Hospice Care)
- Emerald Literati Award for Excellence (for the article 鈥淧utting the 鈥楻ight to Die鈥� in its Place: Disability Rights and Physician-Assisted Suicide in the Context of US End-of-Life Care鈥�) 2019
- Bicentennial Fellowship, Saint Louis University 2017
- Graduate Student Essay Prize, University of Chicago Program in Medicine and Religion 2013
- Irving K. Zola Prize for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies, Society for Disability Studies 2011
- Hastings Center Report Young Scholar Essay Contest, Hastings Center 2010
Community Work and Service
- Board of Directors, Gateway End-of-Life Coalition
- Board of Directors, VOYCE (a long-term care ombudsman organization)